Sometimes in sport, people get the rewards from their efforts, and Jose `the gob´ Mourinho got his at Anfield. His non-stop tirade of pre-game comments and abuse were well and truly answered by Rafa Benitez`s men in red.
Most of the talk before the game was coming from the self appointed `special one´ Mourinho, his comments included little digs, like Liverpool had only played 3 or 4 big games this season while Chelsea had played 27 or that Liverpool would would chase Drogba around all night trying to get him booked, but i think by far his best comment and the one that must make us question is he nowadays really playing with a full deck of cards, was the Liverpool Fc are only a small club jibe. Now anyone on this planet who has an interest in Football has heard of Liverpool Football Club and if Liverpool have 5 European cups in their trophy room what does that make his team that have a grand total of Zero. But the craziness of that comment was best summed up by Steven Gerrard after the game when he said that when the players read that statement that `Mourinho did the team talk for us´. Good on you Jose, if only you could motivate your own team as well.
Its pretty hard to be surprised by any nonsense the special one mutters anymore because his claims against not just Liverpool but other clubs like Man utd have become so stupid and vicious, his personal attack on Chritian Ronaldo that he is uneducated because he comes from a poor background shows how low he has got, but his after game statement that Chelsea were the better team and were the only ones trying to score beggars belief even by his crazy standard. What game was he actually watching because it could not have been the one sided affair at Anfield. Liverpool had 3 or 4 times the amount of chances as Chelsea and a perfectly good goal ruled offside.
But i think the end is nigh for crazy Jose for a couple of reasons, his Russian paymaster must be so sick of Jose alienating all neutral fans and making Chelsea the most hated team in the game at the moment. Remember this is a team that before Romans rubles arrived had no history and very few enemies outside of their London derbies, and in this short space of time Jose has turned them into probably the most hated team on the planet with his so stupid comments. The second and most compelling reason was summed up by Rick Parry when he said about Chelsea `I guess when you've invested £500m it's a fantastic season to win the League Cup´. What Parry said is very true with Chelsea`s massive investment Roman Abromovich must really be thinking is Jose the right man to spend his money and when should he stop the rot, also remember Gus Hiddink is still waiting in the wings.
I dont expect the special one to be at Chelsea next year and it will be no loss for English football, he is not special, any good Sunday league amateur manager given the same resources could achieve the same if not more and his comments which at the start were comical have turned vicious as in the Ronaldo case, but when he said Liverpool were a small club he tried to belittle far greater men than himself, men like Shankly and Paisley and when he did so he paid the price, how better to fire up Stevie Gerrard and Co by saying that the iconic figures from the club were just little men from a little club.
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