Pep Guardiola: Manchester City coach is “harmed” by pictures of child victims in conflict zones

On Monday, BBC News reported figures from the Home Office that a total of 933 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats in January.

“The people who have to do this, they flee their countries, they go to sea and then they get on a boat to be rescued – don’t ask if he’s right or wrong, save him. It’s about a human being,” Guardiola said.

“After we can agree and criticize, but everyone is right, everyone has an idea and you have to express it. People are dying, you have to help them. Protecting human beings and human life is the only thing we have.”

Last month, two American citizens were shot dead by federal agents carrying out US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign in Minneapolis last month.

Football Supporters in Europe (FSE) has expressed its “deep concern about the ongoing militarization of police forces in the United States” ahead of this summer’s World Cup in North America.

Guardiola added: “When I see the pictures, I’m sorry that it hurts. That’s why in every position I can help speak for a better society, and I will try and I will be there. All the time. It’s for my children, for my families, for you.”

“In my view, justice? You have to speak up. Otherwise it will move on. Look what happened in the USA, Rene Judd and Alex Peretti were killed. Tell me how you can defend that?”

“There is no perfect society, there is no perfect place, and I am not perfect. We have to work to be better.”