They are among the world's highest-paid coaches. They employ not just team loads, but also reserves of almost unprecedented quality and quantity.
And yet Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho speak of the "crime" of the English Premier League Christmas calendar - the near-impossible physiological and psychological stress on nerve and limb and sinew.
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