Pep Guardiola’s lessons for Ted Lasso and Manchester’s rich booze history

Pep Guardiola, perhaps offering Ted Lasso some advice on Manchester’s best drinking dens. Perhaps not. Photograph: Apple

THE CREAM OF MANCHESTER

For those not clued into Ted Lasso, the fictional soccer manager from the USA! USA!! USA!!! and star of his self-titled show on the tellybox, you may have missed a deeply earnest cameo in said show this week from Pep Guardiola. As AFC Richmond took on Manchester City, Pep was gracious enough to tell the show’s protagonist: “Don’t worry about the wins or losses. Just help these guys be the best version of themselves on and off the pitch. This, at the end, is the most important thing.”