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Titolo: Un penoso

Ungracious Mourinho Losing More Friends
The last five days have provided a timely reminder as to why Chelsea manager
Jose Mourinho is not the well-loved figure he has the potential to be in
world football.
The Portuguese tactician has charisma by the bucket load. He makes great
copy, generally speaks with extreme honesty and rarely fails to gain a laugh
in his press conferences. He is admired throughout the world for the way he
guided Porto to unlikely triumph in both the Uefa Cup and Champions League,
while the fresh tactics he brought to the table in the Premiership last year
have been well-documented.
But the reaction to Sunday's draw at Everton and Wednesday's Carling Cup
penalty shoot-out defeat to Charlton displayed once again his inability to
take anything other than a victory with much graciousness at all.
Of the Everton match he said: "The referee should apologise and I am not
happy. For Drogba's goal to be disallowed was a big mistake. But managers,
referees and linesman all make mistakes. But it leaves a taste in the mouth.
We dominated clearly and scored two goals."
And of Charlton on Wednesday evening, the heartthrob had this to say: "I'm
very disappointed, but we played a proper game, everyone did their best and
we deserved to win.
"I have no complaints. Charlton fought a lot and they fought for that luck
which they got. They were just lucky."
May be, but it's this seeming refusal to give proper credit to the other
teams and managers that 'leaves a taste in the mouth.' Thank god he doesn't
lose more often.
His confrontational approach to press conferences also leaves much to be
desired. Mourinho seems almost to take criticism of his team as a personal
insult, often answering questions with one-word answers. It's this
unfriendly style of his that is perhaps behind some of the negativity
towards him that we read in our daily newspapers. The words 'rod' and 'back'
spring to mind.
He's made it clear on several occasions that he believes the press to be
against him and his team. And maybe they are. People don't generally take
kindly to institutions with more money than they know what do to with. But
that aside, he could make life so much more comfortable for himself by
generally being more approachable to the press and praising of the efforts
of other teams.
Not everyone has the money at his disposal. So often it's a minor miracle
when 'lesser' sides pull off any kind of a result against the Blues. No
wonder some side's like to 'park the team bus in front of their goal'
(Mourinho's words after a 0-0 draw against Tottenham last season) when
visiting Stamford Bridge or even entertaining Chelsea. They are so far ahead
in quality of anything else currently on show in the Premiership, that teams
have to reach in to all their reserves just to try and muster a 0-0 or 1-1
draw. And more often than not, that will mean playing defensively. Lets not
forget that this is not champagne football the Blues are playing every week,
and have indeed been accused of playing negative football themselves over
the last season or so.

sě, in effetti Max fai abbastanza pena 


Qualcuno ammazzi Mourinho e/o switters: non se ne può più.