By Chris Wright
Several days after his “small horse/poor little us” schtick, Jose Mourinho has spent his afternoon delivering his weekly glib quip to the adoring press throngs crammed into the media suite at Cobham and, as is customary, he’s had a bit of a silly pop at one of his rivals in a bid to keep the nation nattering about anything other than his boring team.
This time he’s been ribbing Arsene Wenger, branding the Arsenal manager an “expert in failure” according to several of the journos in attendance…
Mourinho: “If Mr Abramovich gives me eight years… in eight years you have to build so much, so much, so much… I don’t want eight years.”
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) February 14, 2014
Mourinho on Wenger: “He is a specialist in failure. I’m not.”
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) February 14, 2014
Mourinho: “The reality is he’s a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware, that is failure.”
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) February 14, 2014
A fair few “oofs” – and some shocked laughter – in the press room when Mourinho said his “failure” line.
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) February 14, 2014
Ooh, the old ‘eight years without a trophy’ routine? Nice touch.
We know it’s crap, you know it’s crap, Mourinho knows it’s crap – but it’s his stock in trade and will, of course, be taken and reported as gospel by the teat-suckling press at large because…well, because it’s Mourinho.
Lather, rinse, repeat…