Just a few days back there was a poll run in a British tabloid asking how sorely Jose Mourinho was being missed.
Just a few days back there was a poll run in a British tabloid asking how sorely Jose Mourinho was being missed.
The walrus-esque substitute for the Armani wearing, ‘vouching for hair gel’ Portuguese at the Bridge may win matches, but there is no way in hell he can provide headline-hogging quotes every time he opened his mouth.
Jose — call him a fake, cheat, a stand-up comic - knows well the void he created in English football when he left them back in September, bang in the middle of the season. He woke up to announce the other day that he would kill Chelsea, if he met them in the Champions League next season.
His long lost enemy Arsene Wenger fell for the bait and was quick to retort, “Why should you always have to kill other people to exist yourself? If you do that, then somewhere, you feel you are not good enough. If you have to come out all the time to destroy people, what is life about? Winning and destroying people can never be everything.”
Really, all Mr Special One was trying to do was to make some noise about his availability. He may pretend to be a comic genius but it’s a very shrewd head he has under that perfectly maintained, peppered hair.
He knew that AC Milan and Real Madrid have just had a bad time in the Champions League, as two of the most successful clubs in Europe were knocked out in the round of sixteen.
Besides, ennui might be setting in at Frank Rijkaard’s Barcelona, and perhaps the club could do with a change and a more charismatic gaffer. So, he made just the right noise for the club managements to take notice.
Who knows, he may even return to Chelsea, after having said he feels a lot for the club but nothing for their current man in charge.
Speaking of clubs, there are two ways of looking at Arsene Wenger’s team. A bunch of highly-talented players, playing football exactly how it should be played or gifted players whose search for the perfect goal leaves the trophy cabinet empty.
They are now just a point ahead of Manchester United in the premier league and, panicky as they are, they might just concede the title to Sir Alex Ferguson’s Red Devils, or who knows, Chelsea might pull a fast one of both these clubs and zoom past at the final hurdle.
In the Champions League too Arsenal played beautiful football against AC Milan when they knocked out the Italian 2-0. But that might not translate into a Champions League win. And that will always be the trouble at Arsenal as long as their idealistic manager Arsene Wenger says this, “Somebody can say that if you don’t win trophies, then you’re no one. For me sport is more than just winning.”
Sports has a lot to do with winning. Ask Diego Maradona that.
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