It is two weeks now since the seven-year-old, during dinner of a workaday evening, nonchalantly declared he was now a 'City man'. Initially, we weren't quite sure what that entailed. But we were pretty sure, whatever nonsense it was, it too would pass. But then he started talking about Erling Haaland being the Incredible Hulk of goal-scoring, and how Kevin De Bruyne's Power Play is an unbeatable 92 on his Match Attax card. The return to education last week escalated the situation, as the great collaborative minds of the schoolyard have seemingly decreed Pep knows the answer to every problem.

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