Monday, May 01, 2006

Enemy of the People

He is a devil. The writings of the season's end were unanimous in their condemnation of Jose Mourinho.

He's won the championship and his response to that achievement is to highlight the scant respect he and his team are shown. How ungrateful can he be? What Jose has neglected to embrace his time in the UK is that nobody likes a show off, a rich show off they like less and to cap it all a successful rich show off really is taking the biscuit.

When Gary Lineker smirks "the special one" on Match of the Day you can see the soul of man who won very little in his career, uncomfortable with somebody doesn't do losing and knows just how good he is. Not that Gary doesn't enjoy George Benson's view on true love, he knows he's a special one too, he just doesn't need to say it himself, he has the Walkers Crisp corporation do the crowing for him.

But back to Jose and Media. Manager of the Month in 2 of the 20 he competed for the prestigious prize - Mourinho highlighted this point on his day of glory - when he should have been royally enjoying the media's two-faced praise of his "valueless" achievement. How very dare he.

But how can he not have been recognised during one month of this season. It is unbelievable.

Love him or hate him - personally I love him - he is the best thing to happen to sport media in the modern age, if he could just be tempted into a sexual dalliance with farm animal I feel certain he would be crowned the king of those who live, leach like, off the reporting of other peoples’ lives.


He will be a long time missed when he has gone. And long may he reign.

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