Pep Guardiola said he apologised immediately after a camera operator confrontation following Manchester City\u2019s Premier League defeat at St James\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI apologised. I feel embarrassed, ashamed when I see it. I don\u2019t like it. I apologised after one second to the cameraman. I am who I am,\u201d he told reporters on Monday, acknowledging the incident and his regrets.<\/p>\n
The manager placed the episode in the context of the match, which produced three goals in the space of just 10 second-half minutes. Harvey Barnes gave Newcastle the lead at the hour mark, soon cancelled out by R\u00faben Dias. Yet within moments of City drawing level, Barnes got Newcastle\u2019s decisive second.<\/p>\n
That second Barnes goal sparked a lengthy VAR review. The officials concluded that two Newcastle players\u2014Barnes and Bruno Guimar\u00e3es\u2014who could potentially have been in an offside position were not, and they also ruled there was no foul on City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. Guardiola\u2019s visitors also had two penalty appeals waved away during the contest.<\/p>\n
The tense final whistle led to a fractious postgame melee in which Guardiola appeared to exchange cross words with Bruno Guimar\u00e3es, a player he had openly praised just days earlier. On that relationship the manager said: \u201cWe have known Bruno for many, many years and every time after the game, even at the Etihad, we talk in the tunnel or wherever we talk, always. I don\u2019t know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guardiola also reflected on his own conduct and the pressures of the job. \u201cAfter 1,000 games I\u2019m not a perfect person, I make huge mistakes. The reason why is I want to defend my team and my club,\u201d he said, stressing both his intent and his fallibility.<\/p>\n
The manager insisted the apology was immediate and personal, while the match itself will be remembered for its dramatic swing of events, the VAR decision that upheld the second Newcastle goal, and the denied penalty appeals that followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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