Are Guardiola’s beliefs now torn to ribbons?

It’s not often a man folds a tent this quickly.

On learning that he was to be charged by the Football Association in England with breaching its regulations for wearing a yellow ribbon, in support of imprisoned Catalan politicians, the Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, was unequivocal:

"They (the FA) know I will wear it always. I can wear it somewhere else. Uefa have another opinion. They say you can wear it as long as it’s with respect. Here, it’s different, apparently. I have empathy for the people who have no freedom; those guys in Spain, who are in jail. They haven’t been proven guilty. Anyone can be in that situation. Before being a football manager, I am a human being and this is for humanity.