Why I hope Pep Guardiola halts this current doom spiral and avoids the fate that befell his idol Johan Cruyff, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Pep Guardiola has been here before. Not as a manager, as we all know by now, but as a player he once stood in the grandest of sporting cathedrals and it crumbled around him.