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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Richard Jolly

Pep Guardiola ended 12 years of hurt thanks to masterful midfield reinvention

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“Relax”, yelled the least relaxed man in the Ataturk Stadium. Pep Guardiola has never been a byword for calm; not with his extraordinary array of melodramatic touchline gestures, some of them seemingly incomprehensible.

But then this has been a 12-year psychodrama, a study in how not to win a third Champions League under the auspices of a tortured genius.

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