If one were a betting man, the safest of punts would be Pep Guardiola is the only Premier League manager to have had a serious work of poetry dedicated to him. He is definitely the only one to have a undertaken a reading, as Guardiola did in 2015, when he appeared at Munich's Literaturhaus to perform a piece by his late friend the revered Catalan poet Miquel Marti i Pol.
The work dedicated to Guardiola and his wife is titled "Book of Loneliness", per The Independent, which conversely sprung to mind on a day when he may have felt he had never had so many friends in English football.