The criticism Pep Guardiola received for his rather tense post-match interview following the 2-1 win over Burnley, which showed the Spaniard clearly unhappy/frustrated, really hasn’t gone down well in Catalonia.
On Tuesday, Sport in Spain published an opinion piece from one of their journalists claiming ‘the attitude of the British public and criticism’ towards Guardiola had ‘a lot of Brexit’ about it.
Fast forward to Wednesday, and Mundo Deportivo have their own defence league set up with an article making very similar claims.
Starting off gently by simply stating that Guardiola upset a few (he really didn’t) with his decision to replace the ‘untouchable’ England number one Joe Hart with Claudio Bravo, the ensuing paragraph is something else altogether.
Claiming “the English don’t like that a foreigner can come in to show them the Premier League can be won with a style of football far different from what their teams traditionally play”, all Mundo Deportivo have achieved here is show a little more restraint than their colleagues at Sport by not including the word “Brexit”.
They even go as far as saying the fans have already forgotten the ten wins Pep Guardiola started with at Manchester City, mostly due to their reluctance to accept the Chilean goalkeeper and the ‘peculiar’ style of football the former Barcelona manager is trying to implement at his new club.
The British press and fans have been warned: criticise Pep at your own risk, else you’ll be on the end of a petulant rant from a Catalan journalist, it would seem.
