Damn it! I have such conflicted feelings over Mourinho. A Liebestod if you will.
Love in that he's the one who seduced me into watching PL football, and even flirted with following Chelsea because of him. I bought an LG phone because he advertised it, and when he said that he was 'a special one', he was the shocking daub of colour against the grey haired, grey faced coaches of the game. Because of him, I started to understand what the notion of tactics was about, how Mourinho created a slight of hand with personality, charm and a good Aramani suit, to the honours that he racked up.
In the same breath, Mourinho hastened a death - he of the 'proven' over the academy talents, which hastened the distance of football from hometown lads to the professional disinterest of foreigners; of tying a big money spend to a team as much as a moral virtue. Himself and Abramovich turned the game from what it was to what it is now: the star footballer, the manager as cult of personality, putting media in the forefront of newspaper copy. The notion of tension and fireworks, although it quickened one's imagination, and fired up the red tops, just undid him in the end. Mourinho, I followed you from Chelsea, to Madrid, and back to the PL once more. I'll see you in my google mentions.
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NOOOOOOOOOO
Date: 2015-12-17 03:18 pm (UTC)Love in that he's the one who seduced me into watching PL football, and even flirted with following Chelsea because of him. I bought an LG phone because he advertised it, and when he said that he was 'a special one', he was the shocking daub of colour against the grey haired, grey faced coaches of the game. Because of him, I started to understand what the notion of tactics was about, how Mourinho created a slight of hand with personality, charm and a good Aramani suit, to the honours that he racked up.
In the same breath, Mourinho hastened a death - he of the 'proven' over the academy talents, which hastened the distance of football from hometown lads to the professional disinterest of foreigners; of tying a big money spend to a team as much as a moral virtue. Himself and Abramovich turned the game from what it was to what it is now: the star footballer, the manager as cult of personality, putting media in the forefront of newspaper copy. The notion of tension and fireworks, although it quickened one's imagination, and fired up the red tops, just undid him in the end. Mourinho, I followed you from Chelsea, to Madrid, and back to the PL once more. I'll see you in my google mentions.
:*(