Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Sectioned One


Jose's moans are more entertaining than his team.

Let me start by saying that as a tactician, Jose Mourinho is practically unrivaled, currently.  He knows how to study, disseminate and defeat an opponent using specific pieces in his football team, as well as anyone else.  He consistently creates teams who are hard to beat, difficult to score against and almost impossible to subdue using classical footballing strategy.  Finally, he has the achievements and proof of accomplishing the remit of all managers and especially those at big clubs.  Challenge and win he big trophies.

But I do not respect him.

Although he may be successful, his methods are medieval.  His achievements are littered with bad sportsmanship, puerile one up-manship and a disgusting propensity for consistent sanctimonious hypocrisy.  He doesn't reinvent the game or improve it.  He does not inspire fans to dream of football at a higher level.  His squads are invariably built with a lot of money.  His mentality is to defend, destroy and endure.  He creates nothing but controversy and his teams are not pleasant to watch.  His messianic complex while winning and conspiratorial victim-mongering (yeah go figure, the irony of possessing both traits) borders on megalomaniacal delinquency.

He spends the GDP of a small nation on recreating an ethos that is more (forgive the obvious glib idiom that comes to mind) perspiration and less inspiration.  With the world's most expensive team at his disposal, containing some of the sport's most glittering and gifted attacking stars, he starts with a set of players who are designed to defend, who are programmed to maim.  Jose started 7 defenders in the biggest game of his season.  Even when he needed an attacker, he brought on the hulking but clumsy Emmanuel Adebayor, while leaving both Kaka and Gonzalo Higuain on the bench.  Not once for over 300 minutes of contest against arguably the world's best team, did Real Madrid try to actually be positive and attack.  Not once.



Hey Jose, if this is what your mentality is with so much at hand, how can you justify your position.

I understand the need to make the most of what you have when your team is provincial and your squad is limited.  But at Chelsea, then at Inter and now repeated with criminal intensity at Real, he has sought to conquer by outlasting his opponent in gritty contests of attrition, negative football and a legendary amount of pathetic gamesmanship.  Mourinho needs money, media manipulation and then some to make his brand of defensive orchestration work.

Take a bow Jose, you really are the special one.  Perhaps one day you fancy taking over at Manchester United, of course why wouldn't you ? They have the biggest fanbase in England and a long legacy of success, and despite the recent takeover, plenty of funds.  The latter point is important because Mourinho can only succeed when given the biggest chequebook or the deepest team in the country, and in some situations, both. But you'd never get the job because Old Trafford is used to an attacking brand of football that you could never have the personal lack of insecurity to serve or the creativity to invent.  You wouldn't last a season.


Perhaps you think, you are unrivaled in the current game because you have won league titles in three different countries.  But Guus Hiddink, Dick Advocaat, Fabio Capello and Alex Ferguson are better managers than you.  Arsene Wenger, another whom you despise, may not have won anything for six years, but he has won plenty of fans for the game and will be respected and treasured in ways you can only dream about.  And they have all achieved something you have not, success whilst not being the biggest fish in the pond.

Perhaps you think you have a point to complain since Barcelona 'cheated' their way to a win.  No, they outplayed you and while Pedro and Busquets were both guilty of gamesmanship, your teams are regularly trained to do the same, so get off your high horse.

Perhaps you think Barcelona are part of some UEFA backed conspiracy to win.  Remember how you lied about Kim Milton Neilson being visited by (at the time, Barcelona coach) Frank Riijkaard during the intermission of the first leg with Chelsea in 2005.  Remember how you claimed to have seen it, and eventually admitted you were lying.  Remember how Neilson got attacked by fans and shortly after, retired from the game ? How do you defend that ?

Remember all your mind games which were based on deceit and fabrication, not to mention juvenile defensiveness, with Arsene Wenger and Rafa Benitez during your time at Chelsea ?  Well Karma is circular and Pep's words were cruelly borne out on the pitch.  Your team was beaten on the pitch, their spirit destroyed and your macho posturing blown away.  And all you can do is fry about it like a little child whose favourite toy has been taken away from him.  Mourinho is a bitter, small man whose only joy is depriving others of pleasure.

Jose may think he is constantly persecuted because of his success, but the truth is he should be persecuted because of his failures.  He is a comprehensive loser.

This Barcelona are the currently the World's greatest team not just because of the way they play or their success, but because they have also shown Mourinho to be the busted flush he really is.

Bravo Pep, more of the same in the return leg please, you'll have one less defender available for Real's selection.

1 comment:

  1. this is probably the most boring article i have read yet about mourinho and is obviously written by a massive barca fan. as a supporter of porto, i read this with slight disgust.
    his tactics are medieval? against many teams this season he has used madrid's attacking prowess to burn through lesser side, yet against the the worlds best possesion team his tactic to stagnate the relentless passing. everyone and his dog know that any team that go toe to toe with barca will get beaten, so mourinho uses a tactic that will stop them. Medieval? i think not.

    He uses negative tactics, using 7 defenders against barca. sorry, but as you are counting defensive midfielders so will i. barca used 6 defenders in that match, bringing another on near the end. would you say their tactics were revolve around defnsive attitudes? i think not.

    as for mourinho not being a great coach, you really need to learn more. capello, advocaat, ferguson and huddink have all won their trophies with the help of massive outlays, as has almost every team that has had international and national glory. but the main difference you have failed to spot is that when mourinho went to madrid, his squad was already built for him, not by him, and yet he got a failing madrid pat the last 16 and into the semis, beat barca at the copa del rey, and challenged for the title. hardly bad really when you have no say over transfer policy to mould you team is it?

    go away, do some more research, and realise that in the modern era of football, mourinho is probably the greatest coach in the last 10 years. and dont feed us that rubbish that its pep, he cam in to manage a barca team in the ascendancy, containing the worlds best player. even you could sit in the managers chair and win the league.

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