Pep Guardiola bought himself a Boston Celtics hoodie, flipped his baseball cap backwards and took his courtside seat in the TD Garden arena for the opening game in the best-of-seven NBA Finals.
“He sat right by me,” Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca says. “I talked to him a lot.”
It wasn’t like pulling teeth, which is how Guardiola describes facing Pagliuca’s Serie A team, Atalanta. The Manchester City manager has likened playing against them to an agonising appointment with the dentist because opposite number Gian Piero Gasperini never allows his opponents to sit comfortably.
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Guardiola and Pagliuca could have swapped more stories about Italian football.
The City manager used to play for Brescia, Atalanta’s
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