Premier League should learn from Pep Guardiola, not pour scorn on him | Jacob Steinberg


Manchester City’s manager has had to defend Claudio Bravo and his desire for his goalkeeper to play from the back because it is an alien concept to the English

What is your favourite thing about the Premier League, Pep? Is it the intensity or is it the passion? The intense passion or the passionate intensity? Maybe it’s the intense intensity. Or maybe it’s the passionate passion. Maybe it’s both. Take your time. You don’t have to answer straight away. But you do love us, don’t you?

How could you not be moved and thrilled and even a little seduced by the musky no-nonsense masculinity of English football, where there are never any easy games and it’s so much more competitive and exciting than the craven trash they serve up in Spain and Germany. Validate us, Pep. Hold us, look into our eyes, tell us that we have the best league in the world.

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