Guardiola’s display reveals sport’s common humanity

Twenty years ago this month, one of the first films to cover the burgeoning commercialisation of sport was playing in cinemas all around the country.

“We live in a cynical world,” Jerry Maguire told Dorothy Boyd and a divorced women’s support group that were somehow still in her front room at what Bill Simmons has estimated must have been at least 1.45 in the morning.

“A cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors.”