The Special One

So I missed the Champions League finals between Inter and Bayen....which was sad..because I have been watching so less football nowadays...But I did catch the match afterwards..thanks to the "torrent tribe" out there....and no..we do pay for our viewership...keeping alive all those servers takes some contribution...

but this is not about P2P and torrents..this is about the "special one"....Jose Mourinho does not dazzle on the football field....And yet for soccer fans across the globe, this man challenges the boundaries of being a "messiah" or a "pariah"...depending on which side you are on...

In all those friday and saturday nights that I watched live and re-runs of EPL matches, somewhere I had grown tired of Sir Ferguson...And then suddenly there was Chelsea on the horizon....I loved that team from the beginning...the hard scrappy football of the Italians and yet somehow more passionate than any English club ....and 50 years after they did it last, Chelsea were champions once again...Man U and Arsenal were down the table..Mourinho, take a bow...

But Mourinho would have been just another coach for me if it was not for him being Mourinho....The media did not christen him the "special one"..He did....The media just picked it up.....And watching him on the sidelines and watching his side play football, you know the connection between the man and his team...

Mourinho brings passion back to football...And remains one of the characters whom you can only "love" or "hate"...there's no middle ground with the man...and for once, the man himself does not seek a middle ground....

Where do we draw the line between "arrogance" and "self-belief"...Jose Mourinho keeps on stretching that boundary further and further....And keeps hammering the point that he is the "special one" because he believes he is the "special one"...What can we say to that??

Real Madrid is next....My favorite team...If Mourinho nails that one, he wont ever have to repeat himself that he is the "special one"...Everyone would know, for sure.

Cheers!!

;))