OH TOTTENHAM, HOW COULD YOU (PART MLVII)
The Fiver, wise beyond its beers, realised a long time ago that nothing good could come from us reaching for unattainably high standards, which is to say high standards. Pep Guardiola is not like that, and that’s his problem. The Catalan comes across as one of those perfectionists to whom the slightest flaw in his work triggers agonising reflections, leaving him Edvard Munching into the bathroom mirror, screaming like a pained circus oddity. So just imagine how Guardiola suffers from reminders that Manchester City’s bogey team are Tottenham Honking Hotspur, for goodness sake.
