José Mourinho
Forget the big match: As Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho have proved, sometimes an old-fashioned power struggle is better
Sometimes conflict is healthy, keeping people motivated and proving they care. Sometimes it can be ridiculous.
By Sheridan Bird | Football, Sport | Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 1:02 am
Cristiano Ronaldo, chasing a hat-trick of hat-tricks, will be relishing taking on depleted Barcelona in El Clasico
Drop everything you’re doing at 6.50pm on Sunday. Barcelona welcome, or should that simply be host, old foes Real Madrid at the Camp Nou in the first Clasico meeting of the Liga season.
By Nicholas Rigg | Football, Sport | Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 1:02 am
Fiesta time at Cibeles as Real Madrid lift their 32nd La Liga title
Madrid are on-course to smash all kinds of league records with two games to go. They’ve already secured the highest number of away wins in a season with 15 and counting, most league goals scored in a season with 115 and counting and levelled the most away league goals scored with 49, another record they should beat with one away game to come at Granada.
By Nicholas Rigg | Football, Sport | Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 1:04 pm
Roy Hodgson and humble pie
I think that Roy Hodgson’s appointment infuriates so many of us because it shows us what we really are: we are outsiders, peering up at football’s elite.
By Musa Okwonga | Football, Sport | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 10:45 am
Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes the mastermind of revenge over Real Madrid
Jupp Heynckes has had his fair share of unfair dismissals. His first spell at FC Bayern ended with dismissal for failing to win consecutive titles. Just under a decade later, Heynckes took Real Madrid to their first European Cup success in 32 years and was rewarded, once again, with the sack.
By Kit Holden | Football, Sport | Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 12:56 pm
Why always Ronaldo?
If one player in La Liga could unveil Balotelli’s famous ‘Why Always Me?’ t-shirt this weekend, it may well be Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
By Nicholas Rigg | Sport | Saturday, 14 January 2012 at 12:01 am
Managerial merry-go-round greets return of La Liga
La Liga’s winter break was put in place to give players, and managers, the time for rest and recuperation ahead of moving into the second half of the season, the ‘business end’ of the season.
By Nicholas Rigg | Sport | Friday, 6 January 2012 at 4:02 pm
Barcelona, Madrid, and Radiohead’s final sigh
So: Barcelona 1, Real Madrid 1. In the immortal words of the C&C Music Factory, this match was one of the things that make you go “Hmmmm”. I can’t help that think that, when football’s historians return to ponder this fixture, their verdict will be a slight frown and a brief stroke of the chin.
It [...]
By Musa Okwonga | Sport | Wednesday, 4 May 2011 at 1:56 pm
Must watch: Jose Mourinho goes in goal
Who wants to go in goal? It’s a question worthy of inclusion in John Rentoul’s series ‘Questions to which the answer is no‘.
Anyone who’s ever kicked a ball in a park will know that finding volunteers to stand between the sticks is about as easy as convincing Arsene Wenger to open his cheque book.
Which makes [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 3:26 pm
Jose Mourinho and my man-crush
I do like Jose Mourinho. I’m not sure if it’s a full-blown man crush, but I do really like him.
By Simon Rice | Sport | Tuesday, 30 November 2010 at 1:15 pm
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