PEP AND MAN CITY, THE UNTOLD DECADE: Part 2 – His troubled first season. Why ‘nervous wreck’ Guardiola ‘set fire’ to plans, banished overweight players… and went to war over the grass length, black nets, Yaya Toure, Joe Hart and referees
At 45, Guardiola was at the peak of his powers, the genius City and their Spanish executive team had been prepared to wait for. He was the coach who made winning look easy. Wasn’t he?