“The moment I will leave is when I feel my team don’t follow (me),” Pep Guardiola said on Friday, and again on Saturday. “At that moment I’d say, ‘Wow, I miss my team’ and after, I would call my boss and say, ‘Guys, maybe you have to sit and think about it’”.



There can be no questioning the desire of the Manchester City players after their impressive result (if not quite performance) against Chelsea on Saturday. The Londoners started the game brilliantly, and once City had fallen behind, they could easily have folded, which has too often been the case.



That they fought their way back into the game, despite losing three players to injury and not playing at their best, shows that while they may not be the well-oiled machine of recent years (owing to injuries and whatever else), they are still fighting and they can, of course, still win trophies this season.



That attitude reflected Guardiola’s...