Manchester City under Pep Guardiola were always destined to be kings of Europe

Manchester City have won the treble, and what a way to do it.

The pathway was beautiful. City smashed Bayern Munich, the only German team to win the treble. They blew the kings of Europe and reigning champions Real Madrid away. In the final they defeated Inter, the only Italian team to have won the treble and by doing so ensured Manchester joined Milan as the only city to have produced two Champions League-winning clubs. Manchester United, the fierce rivals and for 24 years the only English team to have won the treble, were vanquished in the FA Cup final. The red half of Manchester will need to invest in some earplugs because their neighbours won't be quietening down any time soon.

Pep Guardiola has also made history as the first manager to win the treble twice. The first came in his first season in management at Barcelona in 2008-09 and now he has climbed the mountain once again.

Guardiola had often joked that no matter how many other trophies he won or how remarkable his achievements were, he would go down as a failure if he failed to win the Champions League.

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It would take one extremely po-faced critic to disregard all the spellbinding football City have produced over the last seven years because an incredibly difficult tournament to win was never won, but there is certainly a grain of truth to it.

No manager in world football has a club structured so specifically for him to succeed as Guardiola does at City. His close friends and colleagues arrived before him in important administrative positions to put the plans in motion and to ensure everything would be to his liking and with such perfect working conditions success was bound to follow. All that