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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