I read with interest your article on Manchester City’s dominance of the Premier League over recent years (The dismal story of modern football can be summed up in two words: Manchester City, 9 June). I also reflected on my experience of the “halcyon days” and it provoked many happy thoughts from my visits to Elland Road to see the Leeds team managed by Howard Wilkinson winning the league – the year before it became the money-go-round Premier League.
However, just as Liverpool and Manchester United did in past eras, Manchester City now dominate not as a consequence of frenzied spending, but of the management of Pep Guardiola. He is setting a standard of excellence that the managers of other teams need to achieve to compete – just as the leaders of Liverpool and Manchester United did in the past.
