Man City legend Francis Lee reflecting on their most famous title win

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City icon Franny Lee has died aged 79 - in 2021, he spoke about Aguero's iconic Premier League-winning goal
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00:00 It will never be forgotten.
00:02 Two minutes before, there was no way that Manchester City were going to even get a draw.
00:09 And then all of a sudden, bingo.
00:12 That happens and the City score two in two minutes and the court popped out the champagne bottle.
00:20 It's what football is all about.
00:22 Only football could change so dramatically within three minutes.
00:27 And it changed and it was an amazing happening.
00:33 And if you were there, you were just lucky to be there.
00:37 Mancini's mum and dad sat behind me.
00:40 Father comes tumbling over.
00:42 I just managed to catch him.
00:44 If it had been one of our other goalkeepers, he might have dropped him.
00:48 People were running around in circles.
00:50 They didn't know what to do to celebrate.
00:52 There wasn't enough celebratory drink in the stadium.
00:57 They didn't just want to drink it, they wanted to pour it all.
01:00 We were in the Championship in Newcastle.
01:02 That full time, we all got back in the dressing room.
01:04 We were looking at one another.
01:07 Suddenly it dawned on us that we'd done it.
01:10 We got under the coach to leave the ground.
01:13 We hadn't even got a bottle of beer between the lot of us.
01:16 (THE END)

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