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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Feyenoord and fingernails cause havoc in Guardiola’s house of pain

Manchester City
Manchester City experience that familiar feeling again. Photograph: Phil Oldham/Shutterstock

BIGGER PROBLEMS

Hearing mention of the word “Brest” is undeniably funny if you’re 12 years old, bored out of your mind and sitting at the back of a French class when it’s mentioned by the only grown-up in the room. But Football Daily feels it could be on thin ice devoting this lengthy treatise to a withering dissection of Tuesday night’s toe-curling synod of the CBS Archbishops of Bigger Cup B@nterbury and have decided instead to focus our gimlet stare on one of the other big stories of the evening. Specifically, the weird capitulation of a Manchester City side who were 3-0 up and coasting in what was supposed to be a much needed confidence-booster at home against Feyenoord before a potentially traumatic and season-defining visit to Anfield this weekend.

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