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Missing The "Special" One?
Published in FilGoal on 29 - 09 - 2007

Since the sudden and sensational departure of Jose Mourinho as Chelsea Manager, feelings of enormous grief and sadness have been highly expressed by the club's fans and his counterpart premiership managers alike.
Even opposition fans and managers he created and had bust-ups with before, they all admitted that the Premiership is losing one of the best managers to have ever worked in English football.
But what is so special about Mourinho, is he the first ever manager to win back to back Premiership titles? Is he the first ever manager to guide a relatively weak side to a Champions League title? Is he a super tactician compared to other managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger or even Rafael Benitez? The answer is no. Then how come everyone is weeping for his departure then??!!
Of course Chelsea fans have every right to feel sad towards the departure of the most successful manager in the club's history.
With the help of Abramovich's money, Mourinho came out of the blue to earn the club two Premiership titles, one FA Cup, a Carling Cup, as well as two Champions League semi-finals. He turned the club to a European giant, a status that many doubt if Chelsea can maintain without him.
It is also undeniable that Mourinho is currently one of the best 10 coaches in the World. But is it something about his personality or about football fans themselves that made him so charismatic?
Since day one Mourinho was keen to show and boast of his arrogance, an arrogance he never gave up or compromise through his time at Chelsea, no manager has ever talked about himself being so special like him before, no manager has ever put himself in a status right after God and Jesus before, and when I say before I can include some of the best managers in the game's history.
People like Renus Michels, Mario Zagalo, Bill Shankly, Brian Clough that played a huge part in transforming and changing the shape of the game itself in a time they couldn't enjoy half the financial support Mourinho had.
In many occasions, Mourinho tactically outclassed his opposition managers and in other cases he was outclasses himself. However, in every possible situation he was always keen to insult opposition managers and players the best way he can, he almost had no respect for no one.

As for the arrogance, clumsiness and disrespectful side, no sane human being can miss any of these sides
And if Chelsea wins it'd be a funny insult, if they lose it can be more serious, but in the end it's an insult.
He could even insult some of his own players if they cant deliver positive result, just like the famous eggs quote, referring that simply players like Andriy Shevchenko aren't good enough to lift the team up – which is right for the moment – but there are many ways of pointing it out than humiliating and publicly undermining your players abilities in order to clear yourself.
Mourinho said he was special and a football God and he made every possible attempt on and off the pitch to hypnotize people and make them believe such idea.
The factor that helped him doing so and of course beside his managerial abilities is that football fans apparently were happy to see a dramatic and Hollywood side added to the game.
An arrogant and disrespectful one but they didn't care, papers and journalists were even happier with that as it meant more controversy and more business.
He had the good looks which also secured him the love of female fans and writers. Mourinho was also a foreigner, and it worked for him that British people always have tendency to adore the foreign hero who can do what a local cant whether he's a Polish handyman, Indian cook or a Portuguese coach.
Mourinho added so much to Chelsea and to English football, but he is no God.
He is simply a successful football coach like any other successful manager before or after him, and that's the side we will miss of him.
As for the arrogance, clumsiness and disrespectful si


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