Guardiola 1, the FA 0 - Sport and politics

If Manchester City was an American football team, based in Manchester, New Hampshire, rather than a soccer team in the British north-west, the team’s manager, Pep Guardiola, could expect the bile that US president, Donald Trump, directed at footballers who knelt in protest as America’s anthem was played before games.

“Get that son of a bitch off the field,” was how the leader of the free world responded to a dignified protest on a pressing social issue.