The talk before it all had been of tactical masterplans and the game’s two grand masters, though what evolved was something beyond any such definition: a wild, indefinable, beautiful kind of football.
Total football in the purest sense and yet another example of how Leeds’ ambition scrambles the minds of the Premier League’s best and take this sport to new levels.
It hadn’t seemed likely to turn out that way. There was a heavy significance about Pep Guardiola affording Marcelo Bielsa such minimal eye contact when they finally stood face-to-face in the sheeting Yorkshire rain.