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Pep is start of new era – Poch
- Updated: October 1, 2016
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino believes Pep Guardiola embodies the start of a new era in football and his team will have to be “brave” to beat Manchester City, live on Nissan Super Sunday.
The current top two in the Premier League clash at White Hart Lane – the first meeting between Pochettino and Pep since they were local rivals as bosses of Espanyol and Barcelona respectively.
Pochettino remembers their clashes with fondness and nostalgia, including a memorable victory he secured at the Nou Camp in 2009 – the year Barca won the treble – but it was a 0-0 draw in his first game in charge of the Catalonians that had the biggest impact.
“He is the face of the change; when you mix the romantic football with the new technology,” Pochettino said ahead Spurs against City on Sky …
