I guess I missed it. What is the source of the documents where he admitted it or made those comments?
Our Gabriel and Coq are starting for Valencia at OT. If they are instrumental in getting Jose fired it will have all been worth it.
Jesus, TNT just started the halftime show during the 40th minute of the United game. What a bunch of tools.
I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, I want United's misery to continue. On the other, I want them to hire Pochettino before the Toilet opens.
Seeing Ajax deservedly draw 1-1 to Bayern in Munich today brings me a lot of joy. (After Arsenal, they're the European team I've followed the longest) Would love to Ajax have a nice run and advance.
Someone at The Football Ramble podcast nailed Mourinho's management style correctly vis-a-vis the club. When he's bigger than the club, they'll listen to him (1st Chelsea stint, Liera, Porto, Inter. Yes a big club but compared to the success of Milan and Juventus they were not acting like it). When the club's bigger than him, he struggles badly (Benfica, Real, 2nd Chelsea stint, Man U).
I live outside Wembley Stadium, watching these scum fans walk up to watch Spurs take on Barca is the most vomit inducing experience of my 30 years of life.
This reminds me of a conversation on this thread from a year ago when I was very suspicious of their ability to have good coverage of the CL. And now, of course, I'm locked out because my "free preview" is over even though I've paid for the package. Plus the app constantly refreshes for no reason and periodically starts running ads. Cool.
Liverpool and spurs in a bit of a battle with their groups. Another slip and they’ll be joining us in the Europa league. Happy to see them both lose, but really happy to spurs run themselves ragged chasing messi around the pitch. That team is poop without ericson and total shit without him and Kane.
Messi was ridiculous yesterday. My 9-year-old (dad brag on the way) who is becoming quite a decent player, likes both Messi and Ronaldo and has asked me in the past why I think Messi is the better all around player. Yesterday would be Exhibit 1 in my case on that argument.
Eh, that doesn't really bother me. If I was as chiseled as him, I'd walk around half-naked all the time too.
He does it before he takes free kicks when he knows the camera is on him! No EPO and cutting agents at your gym?
What are you talking about, Messi was poor yesterday—took him three tries to get that same shot to go in JK, it was an amazing performance really from minute one. So much quality in that team it’s actually embarrassing that we (English press) hype up teams like Liverpool and spurs as even near that level. The way the whole spurs back 8 would just freeze when messi got the ball was crazy. He is literally like a snake charmer with the ball to feet. I can just hear my old coach yelling “force him right, force him right” and some how he is always able to go left.
Where would Inter fit into this hypothesis? It's arguably a pretty big club. Also, how can one club, i.e. Chelsea, be used as an example of being bigger than him, then smaller than him? Seems like a bit of a dodgy theory.
When I mentioned his first stint at Chelsea: we have to remember their history before Roman bought the club. Yes they won the odd trophy here and there but they were never a team with the resources to consistently challenge for the league title every year. They'd last won the league title in 1955 IIRC? Before Mourinho, they'd been 2nd how many times (other than Ranieri's stint)? With Inter I get your point that they are a big club in Italy...but they was a chasm between them an AC for many years. I'm tempted to say the dichotomy was more like Man United v. Liverpool during SAF's run. Yes Inter are a big club but they were over-shadowed by the exploits of Milan for many years, even when they had R9 as their top man. Even when Mancini won three straight Scudetto, one could argue that they were feasting because Juventus had been relegated and the other clubs that could contend had their own problems. In Europe they were exposed and never went beyond the QFs of the CL until Jose stepped in. Your assessment may be way better than mine, I'll defer to your wisdom if you think my choice of Milan as one with a "small club mentality" was off the ball.