It’s probably the romanticism and the sense of tradition, the real meaning of English football, that sends Pep Guardiola weak at the knees whenever one of the old guard find themselves in his orbit.
Tony Pulis, Roy Hodgson, David Moyes, Sam Allardyce. Those with the long histories, that coaching style for which this country has always been identified. As the Manchester United terrace song does not go - they’ve seen it all, they’ve not won the lot.
He has though, and reveres these managers for what they have given to the Premier League but also their staying power as tacticians like himself arrive and ultimately improve the product.