You can win in all sorts of ways

PEP Guardiola had just seen his Manchester City side battered by Barcelona when he was asked if it was time to revisit his dogmatic devotion to all-out attack.
“I am sorry,” said the Spaniard. “But never in my life am I going to change the way I want to play football. It is the only way I know.”
Similar sentiments were expressed after a mauling at the hands of Leicester, and again in the wake of a Champions League exit to Monaco.
Guardiola is the ultimate exponent of a footballing ‘philosophy’ – the modern notion that aesthetic p...

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