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They still remember the punkish Jose Mourinho here: the one who dashed
down the Old Trafford touchline nine years ago as if celebrating the
simultaneous end of war and taxes
Real Madrid’s manager has packed that renegade persona away, perhaps in the hope of impressing the Old Trafford board into giving him Sir Alex Ferguson’s job when it finally becomes available.
A victory for Real in this round of 16 second leg will bring no exuberant pitch-side dash from Cristiano Ronaldo’s master. Those days have passed, Mourinho claims. Knocking United out in 2004 with his pugnacious Porto side was the big gate-crash of Mourinho’s early career. It led to a Champions League title and the Chelsea job.
To repeat that feat at Ferguson’s expense would elicit a less melodramatic reaction. “I live the situation with a different approach, with different emotions,” Mourinho said. “To win a big match is the same now, the same as nine years ago. To lose is the same but the approach is completely different.
“That match was my first season playing Champions League football. Now I have more than 100 matches and I think I can control my emotions a different way. If I lose, I don’t cry, and if I win I don’t run 100 metres. But in the end it is the same.”
Listening to him say this, you might feel the game has kicked him around more than he thought it ever could back when he looked untouchable.
Real Madrid’s manager has packed that renegade persona away, perhaps in the hope of impressing the Old Trafford board into giving him Sir Alex Ferguson’s job when it finally becomes available.
A victory for Real in this round of 16 second leg will bring no exuberant pitch-side dash from Cristiano Ronaldo’s master. Those days have passed, Mourinho claims. Knocking United out in 2004 with his pugnacious Porto side was the big gate-crash of Mourinho’s early career. It led to a Champions League title and the Chelsea job.
To repeat that feat at Ferguson’s expense would elicit a less melodramatic reaction. “I live the situation with a different approach, with different emotions,” Mourinho said. “To win a big match is the same now, the same as nine years ago. To lose is the same but the approach is completely different.
“That match was my first season playing Champions League football. Now I have more than 100 matches and I think I can control my emotions a different way. If I lose, I don’t cry, and if I win I don’t run 100 metres. But in the end it is the same.”
Listening to him say this, you might feel the game has kicked him around more than he thought it ever could back when he looked untouchable.
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