José Mourinho’s living hell: everything he does magnifies Guardiola’s success | Barney Ronay


Trying to talk people into believing Manchester United are a plucky underdog is not fooling anyone, but Mourinho is running out of arguments against why his great rival appears to be simply superior

“I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead”.

I tried not to write a José Mourinho column ever again. Even starting this one it feels only right to acknowledge there is no obvious excuse for talking quite so much about a football manager who is, for all his widescreen presence, a surprisingly prosaic character these days.

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