Manchester City's first Premier League title win of 2012 is considered to be the club's most important. The gateway title, to use modern parlance.
Now that may be about to change. That triumph nine years ago was important because it signalled an arrival. The one that we are about to witness may herald a permanence, a dominance.
As Pep Guardiola was keen to point out on Friday, this has been predicted before in recent times and it has not happened. In fact no club have won more than two consecutive English titles since Manchester United's hat-trick between 2007 and 2009.