“It’s really sore,” joked Sir Alex Ferguson last month, as he presented the LMA Manager of the Year trophy, which bears his name, to Pep Guardiola.
And Ferguson might be even sorer by tomorrow night if Guardiola becomes the first manager in history to win the Treble twice, and the only other coach in English football to claim the three biggest trophies in a season after the Scot’s Manchester United in 1999.