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Turning Manchester Blue: City players were greeted with rapturous applause in Albert Square

Up for the cup: Vincent Kompany led the celebrations on the stage in the city centre

Vincent Kompant, Roberto Mancini and Edin Dzeko all addressed the crowd, as did goalkeeper Joe Hart. Carlos Tevez was in attendance, as were fringe players like Stuart Taylor and Owen Hargreaves, but Mario Balotelli was not after flying back to Milan early on Monday.

The wheels on the bus: The City stars were driven off on a 1.8mile ride through the city

 

Club chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak believes Sunday's thrill ride have consigned the phrase 'typical City' to the dustbin.

'Everyone will have their own experience of what happened yesterday,' he said. 'I don't think any league will be decided like that for many years to come.

'Maybe some people imagined it was 'typical City'. We are not typical City. We have destroyed that thought. This is not a team that is going to lie down. Now we want to forget about 'typical City'.

'This club wants to win more than anything and will fight for that until the last kick of the game.'

Everyone's invited: Fans packed onto the roofs of nearby buildings just to get a glimpse of the team

Khaldoon revealed the course of the season changed after a post-match chat with manager Roberto Mancini last month, immediately after City had suffered a 1-0 defeat that left them eight points adrift of Manchester United with only six matches of the campaign remaining.

'We had two choices,' he said. 'We could either raise the white flag and sulk or pick ourselves up and fight until the last second of this championship.

'I remember going down to the dressing room thinking we were not giving up. Something inside me said there was more to it.

'I had a conversation with Roberto. We both looked at each other and decided to take the pressure off everyone. We felt if we could win all our games and have a bit of luck, we could still pull it off.

Coming through: Every step of the route was chock full of City fans cheering their heroes

Daily Mail