Colin Sheridan: Pep Guardiola may be saying all the right things, but his face is betraying him

After Virgil van Dijk's injury, Pep must have sighed deeply, for it means he will now have to actually try and win the Premier League this season

Now in his fifth season as Manchester City manager, there are increasing signs that Pep Guardiola’s enthusiasm for the job is on the wane. Picture: Matt McNulty

No matter what your Premiership football persuasion, you’d want to be made of some quare stuff to find any joy in the fate that befell Virgil van Dijk at the studs of Jordan Pickford last week. The world's best defender, humbled by the world's least-best goalkeeper.

In one fell swoop of his clumsy English limbs, Everton's custodian blew the title race wide open. Liverpool, so impressive for so long, are now without their talismanic Dutch centre-half for God's know how long.