After Pep Guardiola finished his monologue that took aim at every aspect of Manchester City a fortnight ago, that extraordinary press conference was all that was going to dominate the news cycle for the next few games.
What has been an afterthought to that fall-out, has been the reminder that City had actually won their game against Tottenham after launching a thrilling comeback to win 4-2 from two goals down.
It wasn't a perfect game, hence Guardiola's outburst, but it ended up as a comfortable win and only a few minor improvements will be needed to that performance if City want to do a quickfire double over Spurs on Sunday.
