English football enchants Pep Guardiola in a way that has surprised him across eight years on these shores. The culture of it all, more than anything. The sounds, the smells, the deep pyramid, the relentlessness. Even the cold windy nights when you might need to mix it. He’s come to perversely enjoy those.
There had been an appreciation of how different the Premier League was to La Liga, or even the Bundesliga, beforehand but the way the sport breathes from every pore of this country has spellbound Manchester City’s manager.