Pep Guardiola had a prepared one-liner about the footage of Jack Grealish wandering around near Manchester town hall with a lollipop in his mouth, being navigated away from Albert’s Schloss bar.
Did this bother him, the Manchester City manager was asked? ‘A lot. I’m so upset because they didn’t invite me…’ he replied.
And because deadpan is just not Guardiola’s style, there was a brief, uncomfortable silence when nobody knew whether to laugh. ‘I don’t like it,’ the manager continued. ‘Hopefully next time they can invite me and do the dinner correctly.