Fantasising about a last surge through the gears for Mourinho’s diesel destroyer | Barney Ronay


Once hailed as a winner, the Portuguese is regarded in the new orthodoxy as pure plutonium, but his expensively badged pragmatism may be what Arsenal needs

Strange how easy it is to end up missing things. Misplaced nostalgia is as old as people being old. Although oddly it is often the things that weren’t that good for you in the first place you end up missing most.

Take, for example, José Mourinho, who has this week been linked with a return to the Premier League at Arsenal, albeit most likely by some covert arm of the Mourinho-Industrial complex.

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