It was the same room, same chair, in which the same Pep Guardiola had sat down to tell us, less than a year earlier, that he was 'not a coach for the tackles. I don't train the tackles. What's tackles?'
As someone memorably put it at the time, Guardiola arrived in Leicester that December day looking like 'that guy who thinks he can climb Everest in a T-shirt' and his response, after a 4-2 defeat, suggested that this was one football summit he would not be scaling any time soon.
The bad news for the sides trailing City is that their return to the scene of that defeat provided evidence that they can defend, too.