Mourinho

[FCSimmo]

"Then he took Porto, a middling club, to winning the Champions League."

What he did with Porto was good, but personally I thought how they played under him was a disgrace. They cheated their way to victory beating Celtic the year before their CL win. Their game plan seemd to be

Once the goalkeeper gets the ball
1 - kick to somebody at about the half way line
2 - that person waits for a challenge and then drops like he has just taken a snipers bullet
3 - from the free kick, hoof the ball into the box and try to get somebody on the end of it.

If the other team has the ball and they are breaking, pull them back/down, giving away a free kick, but allowing them to get all 11 behind the ball.

If they are in the lead, play for as much time as possible by rolling around and pretending to be injured. They were able to do this to Oscar standard.

But then from the game with Liverpool it seems that Porto still do this.

That's a bit harsh... Porto had some great players at the time and they certainly played better football than Chelsea have over the past 12 months... although you can't deny the cheating element, they are naturas when it comes to that!

What's that noise? is it a bubble bursting?

[wendigo100]

What he did with Porto was good, but personally I thought how they played under him was a disgrace. They cheated their way to victory beating Celtic the year before their CL win.

Europeans have a different attitude to diving than us. We blame the cheat, then we blame the referee.

But in Europe they blame their own players for allowing themselves to get conned!

I read an interesting book by Vialli on the subject. It is part of the game over there, and they wonder why the British get upset about it.

[FCSimmo]

Spot on, they see it as a talent... The South Americans are the same, if you manage to get conned it's your look out and I'm clearly smarter than you...

Think I'd rather lose than lower myself to those levels...

[FCSimmo]

ps. we are Europeans too...

[Bagpuss]

looks like it's normal service resumed with a straight fight between United and Arse for the title

[FiveTimes]

looks like it's normal service resumed with a straight fight between United and Arse for the title

Oi.... what about Liverpool ?? Game in hand, unbeaten etc.....

[Swiss Tony]

Last won the league 89-90

[FiveTimes]

Last won the league 89-90

True, but they can't be written off yet...

I assume you are talking about the prem league, and not the champions league '05

[TheFaQQer]

Oi.... what about Liverpool ?? Game in hand, unbeaten etc.....

When Max gets sacked, and the Special One takes over, then there's a chance...

[FiveTimes]

When Max gets sacked, and the Special One takes over, then there's a chance...

The only was that would work is for Jose to come and be Rafa's #2 then he can learn how to work under a true master of European football...