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Guardiola's biggest legacy is that he changed the footballing mentality of a stubborn nation that claims to have discovered the game. (AP Photo)

A bit of Pep Guardiola in every English football game, from Premiership to Sunday leagues

May 25, 2026 8:38 am

The Man City manager might have shepherded his last game after a decade with the resurrected Blues of Manchester, but in tweaking, revolutionizing, unlearning and unleashing his tactical genius, the virtuoso has imprinted his game-brains on how England plays football.

Pep Guardiola set to leave Manchester City at end of season

May 22, 2026 6:59 pm

Guardiola, who took charge of City in 2016, has won six Premier League titles -- including four in a row -- three FA Cups, five League Cups and the Champions League, but his side have not won the league in the last two years.

Manchester City's Antoine Semenyo, left, scores the opening goal during the English FA Cup final soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester City in London, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo)

Antoine Semenyo joins the band of back-heel bamboozlers

May 18, 2026 8:58 am

From Italian virtuosos forced into tail switching to shake off watertight Serie A defenses, to a scarcely known Northern Ireland midfielder who made shortlist of the Puskas award, the backheel assist or goal has been a match-turning ode to deception

Man City and Arsenal are in tight Premier League title race. (AP)

For Man City and Arsenal, depth in numbers and quality like-for-like replacements, are key

April 27, 2026 6:51 am

The charge to the Premiership title might not have been feasible if Guardiola and Arteta's squads didn't have the depth to last the rigours of the multi-pronged season

Premier League title race on knife edge with Man City, Arsenal level on points and goal difference

April 24, 2026 8:10 am

Only once has the top division been decided by goals scored, and it's possible that one of the teams may miss out despite winning their remaining games

Manchester City vs Arsenal

April 22, 2026 1:27 am

That only two EPL sides progressed to the quarterfinals of the Champions League is a punch on the ribs of the English boast. Arsenal could, perhaps, break the City-Liverpool duopoly and inject a freshness to the predictable paths the EPL title race has traversed.

The defeat to City was a crushing psychological blow. But Arsenal found the ideal attacking blueprint, even though a game-specific tactic. (AP Photo)

Pep Guardiola said what Mikel Arteta couldn't: Arsenal are still in this

April 21, 2026 6:46 pm

The City defeat was crushing. It was also the last truly fearsome fixture on Arsenal's calendar. Sometimes losing is the clearest way to see

Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola applauds supporters at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and and Arsenal, in Manchester, England, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo)

How system’s manager Pep Guardiola gleans from Sir Alex Ferguson’s book of man management

April 21, 2026 10:57 am

The heist artists of 2026 at Manchester City, capture Guardiola's shifting convictions, and the weird pleasure of rebelling his own ideas and embracing the ones that he had once smirked at

Haaland needed a statement goal in a clutch game to punctuate his season. (AP Photo)

Cherki's inventiveness, Haaland's redemption script City's seismic win

April 20, 2026 3:02 am

The 2-1 victory at Etihad Stadium takes Pep Guardiola's team within three points of leaders Gunners with a game in hand as the title race enters final lap