Pep Guardiola says he is shielded from the fervour of the Manchester derby by his focus on the job in hand. The Manchester City manager was angry this week when he felt his words about the Champions League group game with Club Brugge — when he said it was a "more important" game than the meeting with Manchester United — had been taken out of context.
But the City boss says he cannot afford to get caught up in the emotion that the two sets of fans generate as this meeting of old rivals approaches - and that his work prevents him from getting a true taste of how the city feels when the Blues face off against the Reds. "I don't feel it," he said. "I wake up in the morning, and come here to the bubble in this centre and I’m 12 or 14 hours
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