On 13 May 2012, Manchester City played Queens Park Rangers at the Etihad Stadium in both teams' 38th and final match of the 2011–12 Premier League season.

[13] Nonetheless, after a takeover by Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi royal family City's fortunes turned around, and over the course of several seasons they built a team capable of challenging for a title for the first time since the 1970s.

Following this loss of place City's belief seemed to take a dip and their resulting bad form over the next four matches ended up with United leading the table by eight points with only six games each left to play.

[23][24] Adding to the atmosphere of the match for City was the fact that lining up for their opponents were several of their former players in Nedum Onuoha, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton.

[25] In their early history Queens Park Rangers had been a traditional lower-league side, joining the Football League in 1920 and spending almost all of the next 50 years in the third tier.

[26] The investment of billionaires Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Lakshmi Mittal in the late 2000s finally gave them firm financial footing,[27] and by 2011 they were back in the Premier League.

[30] A good run of results in the early months of the year put Rangers firmly mid-table[31] but results tailed off in late 2011 and by the end of the year they were barely above the relegation zone[32] leading to the sacking of manager Neil Warnock on 8 January 2012,[33] being replaced by Mark Hughes who achieved his first victory two weeks later against fellow relegation candidates Wigan Athletic.

[37] QPR had been without both Kieron Dyer (foot) and Alejandro Faurlín (knee) since August, while Ákos Buzsáky (hamstring), Shaun Derry (thigh), Samba Diakité (illness), and Heidar Helguson (groin) were all doubts for Hughes' team.

[37] The game kicked off at 15:00 BST in front of a crowd of 48,000 at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester,[1] in addition to a peak audience of more than three million viewers on Sky Sports.

[39] In the buildup to the opening goal, City midfielder Yaya Touré picked up an injury and was replaced just before half-time by Nigel de Jong.

[36] Wayne Rooney's goal in the 20th minute of United's match against Sunderland meant that City needed to avoid dropping points to QPR throughout the second half to win their first league title in 44 years.

[42] QPR equalised three minutes into the second half when Djibril Cissé ran onto a miscontrolled defensive header by Joleon Lescott, entering the penalty area and shooting past Joe Hart at the first touch.

[36] Seven minutes later QPR were reduced to ten men when Joey Barton appeared to elbow Carlos Tevez off the ball and was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean.

[43] Needing to be escorted off the pitch by former teammate Micah Richards, Barton made a further attempt at starting a fight with Mario Balotelli before he could be sent down the tunnel.

Despite being a player down, QPR scored again in the 66th minute when a looped cross from Armand Traoré found Jamie Mackie unmarked to head in past Hart.

In the second of those minutes substitute Džeko equalised, powering a header past the goalkeeper from an in-swinging Silva corner[41] - City's 18th of the match.

[36] When the match was restarted, Agüero was booked for excessive celebration, while QPR – knowing that they were now safe from relegation[45] – again hit the ball out for a throw-in and remained in their own half as Clichy and Hart passed the ball near their corner flag until Dean ended the match a few seconds later, to which the Manchester City supporters invade the pitch after winning their first Premier League title.

[60] After reclaiming the Premier League title, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson announced his retirement following 26 years in charge at Old Trafford.

[61] Without Ferguson, United immediately struggled, finishing the 2013–14 season in seventh place and failing to qualify for European football for the first time in 25 years.

[62] The poor season, which saw Ferguson's own nominated successor, David Moyes,[63] sacked after less than one year in the job,[64] would ultimately prove to only be the start of a prolonged period of little success, with commentators almost a decade later continuing to attempt to provide narrative or explanations for their shortcomings.

[73] Asked to look back on the previous decade for City at an event to mark the unveiling of a statue of Sergio Agüero in 2022, club Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak commented "It's the moment that changed everything.

[83] In 2017 the club produced a mini-documentary entitled simply "93:20"[84] and then five years later released a second documentary to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the goal, this time naming it "93:20 | The Ultimate Premier League Finale".

[87] A statue of Agüero was also unveiled on the 10th anniversary of the goal, with the pose capturing the moment he ran down the sidelines immediately after scoring, swinging his shirt around his head in celebration.

The combination of the drama of the event and Tyler's incredulous comments as he watched it unfold immediately caught the public attention and gained a lasting reputation.

[103][104] QPR were promoted to the Premier League again in 2013–14, qualifying on 25 May 2014 after a playoff final victory over Derby County[105] but lasted only one further season, being relegated on 10 May 2015 after a 6–0 loss to City.