Are Manchester City set to follow in the footsteps of Leicester City?

Following last season’s romantic drama, Pep Guardiola can be leading man in a Premier League blockbuster this time around, writes Liam Mackey

It’s always instructive to look back on what you dared to hope for 12 months before.

This time last year, coming off the back of a far from vintage 2014/2015 Premier League season, I concluded my preview of the campaign ahead as follows: “So my single biggest wish for the season ahead is that, whichever side comes out on top in May, we are not short-changed on the entertainment front. Because while no-one with any understanding of the game seriously buys into the hype about ‘the greatest league in the world’, the Premier League can legitimately claim to be, at least in dramatic spasms, the most exciting – a very different thing, as even England’s biggest clubs tend to discover when they step outside their comfort zone for a little misadventure in the Eurozone.”