Pep Guardiola sat down and folded his arms in front of him. Folded them tight. He listened to the first question. It was about the Champions League and whether winning it has become a dream or an obsession.
His arms stayed folded. The red stripes on his tracksuit top blazed in the artificial light.
‘It is absolutely a dream,’ he said. ‘It is about obsession and desire.’ Then he paused for a second while he thought about what he had just said. ‘Obsession is a positive word.’
That is something that has changed this year as Guardiola and City have swept all before them in their pursuit of a Treble that only Manchester United have achieved before and a Champions League trophy that City have never won in their long and undulating history.