For better or for worse, it always seems to come back to Stan Collymore.
This isn’t to doubt the writing chops of the former Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Aston Villa striker as a roving “journaliste”. On the contrary, he is a two-time SJA British Sports Journalism Awards winner.
But Collymore’s takes on Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City reign map out how some critics have consistently moved the goalposts when it comes to how a record-breaking period of success should be analysed.
