Josep “Pep” Guardiola (b. 18 January 1971), the Catalan football manager and former player, is one of the most consequential coaches of modern football. His career, stretching from his formative years under Johan Cruyff at FC Barcelona to his managerial dominance at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City, has produced a body of work of such aesthetic coherence and tactical sophistication that it is often described in near-religious terms by admirers. Widely regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time, he holds the record for the highest number of consecutive victories in three different top European leagues. From his earliest days as a player, Guardiola was marked not by innate genius of touch but by a burning intensity of will and control. Cruyff, who made him the pivot of Barcelona’s “Dream Team,” saw in him a player of rare intelligence and command rather than flair: “He reads the game better than anyone else on the pitch” (Cruyff 1999, p. 84). Guardiola’...
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth of the same name, published just a couple of years earlier. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, who already had prestigious films such as High Noon and From Here To Eternity among his credits. The book's plot follows a professional assassin - known simply as "the Jackal" - as he prepares to carry out a contract for killing French President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. The screenplay follows the book pretty closely: it simplified rather than modified the book; it cut some pieces of dialogue; it moved the city where the Jackal's forger and gunsmith are based, from Brussels to Genova; and it eliminated one of the Jackal's fake identities. Other changes are minor. This film is unique and worthy of analysis, in my opinion, for using mainly P on the audience, with a little bit of R , and I as to the structure of the narrative, and very few concessions to other element...