Monthly Archives: May 2013
Mourinho was not so special in Spain
I can think of several coaches deserving a noble place in Spanish football history, but Jose Mourinho is not one of them. Cowardice dictated his red card in the King’s Cup final, his verbal outburst the cheap shot of a bad loser. He had promised more than he could deliver and knew it but rather than stick around and fight to the end with his players, he chose escape. It was a game in which Simeone’s street bruisers had found their perfect counterpart in Mourinho, and beat him at his …
The sadness in Barca’s defeat
Reflecting on last night’s game in the Nou Camp in the early light of today’s dawn I wondered what it was that had provoked a feeling of deep melancholy in me. At its most basic, I saw my team in just over a week not just beaten but comprehensively so-twice and with the ultimate humiliation played out on home ground. But then Barca is not any team- for millions of fans around the world it has become an idea of football not just as a sport but as …
