A decade on and they still fool for it.

comment by TheChameleonProject (U1847)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
You said Brendan was better than him
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Talking to Liverpool fans is like talking to a clown. A joke to look and speak at, can't take anything they say seriously.

Easy to defend ain't it Brendan?
Anyone can set up a team to play like that

Chelsea fans and pool fans have been at it since the Slippy G game after which Brendan said it easy to defend.
Pool fans and Spûds have been at it since Brendan said they should be challengers last season.

I enjoy watching them rip each other apart<apart>

Pool fans secretly want Jose to manage them

Without him they could have won the league

Mourinho is a great manager, but the twists and turns his sect go into in order to try to justify and explain his every action is ridiculous; he isn't infallible and his press statements don't always follow some master plan.

I've been reading what's been said here about Madrid, and Wump is totally correct in the main. Without going into the Casillas affair in too much depth, regardless of what he might have said privately, Casillas never spoke out publicly against Mourinho. In hindsight, you could even argue he handled the situation more intelligently than Mourinho. His public statements were all about getting behind the team, supporting Diego Lopez, accepting the situation, working harder then ever and trying to win the manager's confidence back. I've no doubt he did indeed maneouver behind the scenes to get others to do the talking for him, but going public against Mourinho is something he didn't do.

But anyhow, let's forget player power for a moment.
At one stage, when JM was under pressure due to the poor results and to his public outbursts against his players, he launched a full-scale attack in the media against the Madrid B manager, completely out of the blue, accusing him of not worrying about the future of the club's youth players and playing them in positions that he (JM) did not see them suited to for the first team. Nothing to do with player power, nothing to do with deflecting attention from his players (it was him, not his players, who was under fire) - just a totally cowardly attack on someone who was not in any position to defend himself because if he had responded he would've quite simply been sacked on the spot.

As I said to begin with, Mourinho's a great manager, but the sun doesn't shine out of his or anyone else's árse. Ther were many situations in Madrid he handled appallingly.

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'Sup, TCP?

But anyhow, let's forget player power for a moment.
At one stage, when JM was under pressure due to the poor results and to his public outbursts against his players, he launched a full-scale attack in the media against the Madrid B manager, completely out of the blue, accusing him of not worrying about the future of the club's youth players and playing them in positions that he (JM) did not see them suited to for the first team. Nothing to do with player power, nothing to do with deflecting attention from his players (it was him, not his players, who was under fire) - just a totally cowardly attack on someone who was not in any position to defend himself because if he had responded he would've quite simply been sacked on the spot.
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Attacking another manager, Rodgers or whoever will not make Mourinho any better a person. Its just deflection.

I think you're deluding yourselves somewhat. Most of us just find what Jose says hilarious - it's not a criticism necessarily but Chelsea fans often read it that way

in the meantime few people are under any illusions that Chelsea weren't at their best on saturday