Pep Guardiola has a cold. He sits on a dais in an auditorium at the Etihad Campus, his eyes darting around, taking everything in, examining everything, surveying the rows of seats that rise away from him and the journalists sitting in them and waiting for the questions to come.
When he speaks, it is in a voice that barely rises above a whisper. To begin with, it seems he is being deliberately taciturn. Sometimes, that is his way. To begin with, it seems he is stripping all the emotion out of his words because he knows Anfield lives on emotion.