José Mourinho and the fall of football's dark angel
The sneer, the shrug, the black coat. José Mourinho doesn't bother to hide any more that he is the dark angel of football. Nobody is so effective at killing games, nobody less concerned about the spectacle.
Entertainment? No, the game is for winning – even if you're in charge of Manchester United, the most successful team in English history, the richest club in the world, a side that since the 1950s has been synonymous with swaggering, attacking play.
New Statesman
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