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Guardiola-Walker Fallout Laid Bare in ‘A Beautiful Obsession’ Amazon Documentary
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Amazon’s A Beautiful Obsession reveals Pep Guardiola’s clash with Kyle Walker in a new four-part documentary series.
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Pep Guardiola‘s explosive dressing-room confrontation with Kyle Walker has been exposed in full in a new Amazon Prime Video documentary series titled “A Beautiful Obsession”, which launched in the UK and Ireland on Wednesday, August 19, 2026. The four-part series chronicles the final two turbulent seasons of Guardiola’s ten-year reign at Manchester City (2024–2026), and the footage it contains — raw, unfiltered, and emotionally searing — has sent shockwaves through English football.
The documentary, reviewed by The Athletic ahead of its release, captures a heated confrontation between Guardiola and Walker in the dressing room at Anfield following a 2–0 defeat to Liverpool in December 2024 — a row that, in the words of Goal.com, “ultimately signaled the beginning of the end for the veteran defender’s career at the Etihad Stadium.” What began as a tactical debrief descended into one of the most candid manager-captain conflicts ever caught on camera.
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- The Athletic — nytimes.com
- BBC Sport — bbc.co.uk
- BBC’s reporting on his England career — bbc.com
- Guardiola-Walker fallout revealed in new documentary – BBC — bbc.com
- Guardiola’s row with Walker at Manchester City revealed in new Amazon documentary — theguardian.com
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