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When actor-manager Pep Guardiola left the stage, his show closed... but Britain's European Cup-winning managers stayed sitting down

It’s fair to say that European Cup-winning managers within these shores have not always felt the need to be demonstrative on the touchline.

Liverpool’s Bob Paisley, who won the trophy three times in five years, sat in the main stand for much of a game and would head down the interior staircase at Anfield to suggest a substitution. Yet in keeping with his collectivist culture, if there was a shift in the pattern of the game before the player got on, assistant Joe Fagan would leave things exactly as they were. ‘I’m not letting you go on and be associated with this s***.