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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Rob Smyth

It turns out the answer to eternal happiness is a Nordic cheat-code

Manchester City’s lab-created goalmonster, Erling Haaland, celebrates scoring against FC Copenhagen.
Manchester City’s lab-created goalmonster, Erling Haaland. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

LOOK AT HIS FACE! JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE!

Pep Guardiola loves football, but he doesn’t always look like he enjoys it. Why would you, when you have a win percentage of 73 and enough medals to fill a lock-up just off the M60, yet are still routinely called a bald fraud by Social Media Disgrace Twitter’s finest? The perfectionist in Guardiola is always chasing something more, something purer. But it turns out the answer to eternal happiness is much simpler. All you need is a big, hulking, Nordic cheat-code.

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