Pep Guardiola has conquered so many frontiers in football that his place in the pantheon of all-time great coaches is far beyond dispute. This season, though, he will try to boldly go where no manager has gone before and capture the English league title for a fourth consecutive year.
Nobody has achieved this, not even Sir Alex Ferguson, Bob Paisley or the great Herbert Chapman of a century ago. In the long history of the game in England, a hat-trick of three successive championships has happened just five times previously: Huddersfield Town1924-26,