Champions League updates from the 8pm BST Group F gameYoung Boys v Manchester United: Champions League – live!And feel free to email Jacob or tweet @JacobSteinberg 6.53pm BST In the other game in this group, it’s Shakhtar Donetsk 1-2 Hoffenheim at half-time. It’s going to take a while to get used to these early kick-offs. 6.17pm BST Did you know that Pep Guardiola hasn’t won the Champions League since 2011? That’s seven years and counting! In fact, he’s never won it without Lionel Messi in his team. What a bald fraud! No wonder Manchester City aren’t going to let his bald fraudulence ruin their chances in this one. Guardiola’s been banished to the stands and that’s where he’ll have to stay all evening. You can’t be too careful.After all, we’ve reached a situation where pointing and clapping’s Zinedine Zidane, who started his managerial career in 2015, has won this competition more times than Guardiola, the man who’s spent the past decade reinventing the wheel. Makes you think, eh? But not too much. Because the last part of the first paragraph isn’t actually true. Not entirely, anyway. For while Guardiola does have to hand over the reins to
Arsenal reject
Mikel Arteta for City’s opening Champions League fixture, that’s because Uefa have given him a one-match ban following his meltdown in last season’s quarter-final defeat to Liverpool. Continue readingreadfullarticle
