What Grealish and Haaland did during Man City title celebrations prove Pep Guardiola point

Asked about the FA Cup final on Saturday, Erling Haaland broke rank with the strict one-game-at-a-time mantra that has defined Manchester City's four Premier League titles in a row.

“We’ll try to go for the double but right now I don’t focus on that," he said. "I focus on what we’ve just achieved and now it’s about enjoying that. In a couple of days, let’s start focusing on the FA Cup."

It takes something big to derail the hardened collective mentality of a game-by-game tunnel vision, especially in the build-up to a huge FA Cup final. But it's not every day you create English football history.

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“I celebrate with my family and friends and of course with the whole club," Haaland continued. "This trophy - for the fourth year in a row - is for the whole club so everybody should celebrate it.”

As the players headed first to the Tunnel Club hospitality and then to a Greek restaurant in town, most changed into something more comfortable and more expensive. Haaland kept his City training wear on. Jack Grealish's outfit reportedly cost over £2000, and the bar bill racked up by the City squad will have been in the thousands, too.

But who are we to tell the players how to enjoy their latest title? This has been 11 months in the making, and at times they will have felt it was not possible. Pep Guardiola looked emotionally drained as he spoke to the media in his press conference, and he too was at the player's party alongside his wife. For a man hardwired to perfect every minute detail, he had to allow himself to have a