Richards: "Last season City felt humiliated"

Micah Richards explained in the 'Daily Mail' the reasons why Manchester City have triumphed this season, just one season after watching Liverpool make history.

"When you have been a champion, to see someone else celebrating with 'your' trophy feels like a punch in the stomach. I could see how much it had hurt City's players when they had to give Liverpool a guard of honour at the Etihad Stadium last July", he noted.

The ex-player of the 'Sky Blues' believed that the players felt "almost humiliated" at having to make that guard of honour: "I remember seeing Bernardo Silva reluctant to shake hands that night and the expression written all over his face was clear: we cannot let this happen again."

"Guardiola has been absolutely outstanding. If the players have shown their mental strength, so too has Guardiola. Do not forget he lost his mother, tragically, during the pandemic but he has found it within himself to keep going. He is obsessed with the pursuit of achieving football perfection and he will not stop driving City forward", Richards concluded.