get on with it

"It's not just a Wales thing - it's an across the UK thing - we're all ready to go, it is just time to press the green button and get on with it."

His 39-minute music performance at his town hall this week is just the latest reason why he needs to go gently into that good night – so the rest of us can get on with it – because we ain’t going back.

"Some people do experience period pain that is having a severe impact on their life and us telling them just to get on with it is never going to be helpful," she said.

Guardiola is among a number of senior City staff who have concluded the outcome of those informal talks is that the current English champions will just have to get on with it.

"We just had to take it on the chin and get on with it."