TWB : Why this title means more to Pep | Creative Nation Magazine

Man City Premier League Champs 2021 | 2022

Success is not foreign to Pep Guardiola- the furthest thing from it. In his 13 years in management, he has won an impressive 10 league titles in 3 of Europe's top 5 leagues. Yet somehow, after clinching the Premier League title this Sunday he was in tears.

It's safe to say that this title campaign was a whole lot more emotionally demanding on the Catalonia native than the ones that have past. For the second time in 4 years, they have beaten Liverpool to the honors by a single point.

Author

S'bo Gyre

Published

May , 2022

As subjective an opinion as that might be, it's hard to look past the romanticism associated with Liverpool achieving the unprecedented quadruple from most sections of the press.

The nature of Liverpool rivaling City was always going to create a dichotomy that would cast City as the villain. Sarcastically labeled as "plucky underdogs" due to their seemingly bottomless coffers, the tongue-in-cheek attitude towards his team was bound to rub him off the wrong way.
The tip of the iceberg was seemingly City's disastrous collapse at the Bernabeu versus Real Madrid. The work put in by his staff, players, and himself was undermined due to their failure to reach the club's European showpiece final.

His response was to rather obscurely reference the spending at AS Roma of all clubs as a barometer to prove that spending money does not guarantee success on the football pitch. This was, if ever there were, an example of how much rivalries from the past and murmurs in the present pluck at the heartstrings of his ego. Lots of credit must be given to the Merseysiders who clawed back a 14-point deficit to make the EPL's culmination as pulsating as it was. This is something that is not lost on City's players.

"Even though again they finished one point behind us, I think they played an incredible season, and we pushed each other to the limit", Sunday's two-goal hero Ilkay Gundogon said during the Citizen's title celebrations. "I know it's tough to say, but if Liverpool wouldn't be there and play the way they play, very successful, this league wouldn't be that attractive."

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