His last Champions League final was in 2011, but Manchester City have it in them if the manager finds the right combinations
As a basic rule, the best TV sitcoms tend to centre on a character stuck in their surroundings; and trapped, by extension, in their unfulfilled desires.
The office manager who wants to be a comedian but doesn’t realise he’s not funny. The ennui-ridden cafe owner who falls in love with a priest and can’t escape her family. Plus, of course, the genius-level football coach in the high fashion yak-weave hoodie who can’t stop trying to win the Champions League, but keeps electing an ultimately self-destructive inverted-diamond false wingback system in the key knockout game against Dinamo Plovdiv.
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