Pep Guardiola’s bloodied face offers fleeting window into a tortured soul
The image of Pep Guardiola’s scratched face, his nose cut and his scalp painfully reddened, is heart-rending. Here is a figure who likes to project a force field, an aura of invulnerability, but whose torment at the worst run of his managerial career is so acute that he is tearing at his own skin.