style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Full disclosure: I was one of those for whom the final minutes of the last English football season provoked a range of embarrassing, not to say demented, reactions. If you are a fan of the sport, you will remember most of the details. If not, it will mean nothing to you. My team, Queens Park Rangers, one of the weakest teams in the Premier League and threatened with relegation, were on the brink of beating Manchester City, the strongest team – or at least the richest – to save themselves and deny City the league title.