Man City manager Pep Guardiola becomes first Premier League boss to be shown yellow card this season after furious outburst – The Sun

PEP GUARDIOLA became the first Premier League manager to be booked this season during the first-half of Sunday's Community Shield.

The Manchester City coach proved his passion to win the season opener but went too far with an outburst in the face of fourth official Stuart Atwell.

Sadly for the perennial record-breaker, he missed out on being English football's first booked boss of the season with Wigan Athletic's Paul Cook taking that honour the day before.

Indeed, the rule has been in place in the Football League for a season, and has been deemed a significant enough success to roll out in the top-flight.

During which time, Maurizio Sarri managed to earn himself a yellow during Chelsea's League Cup game against Tottenham.

After four yellow cards, a manager will be banned from the touchline for one match.

Guardiola was particularly irked about a challenge by Joe Gomez on David Silva.

The pair went in hard on a waist-high ball and the City midfielder came off second best, clutching his ankle while play was waved on.

Evidently, Guardiola felt Gomez went in with his studs and motioned as such while lambasting Atwell.

However referee Martin Atkinson felt his remonstrations went too far and dished out the yellow card.

Sunday's game at Wembley certainly gave City a physically challenging start to the season, Leroy Sane coming off injured after just 11 minutes following a tangle with Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Before the rule change, the official would have only been able to issue a verbal warning before sending him to the stands if necessary.

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