Jose Mourinho at Man United was a box office event to rival Barbenheimer. And like Oppenheimer's money moment, it blew up.
In the rush to capture a sheet of paper Jose Mourinho had unfolded at a press conference, a journalist spilt water over it. That was just at Mourinho's introduction as Manchester United manager.
United are still on 20 titles partly through their decision-making around Mourinho. He is their best manager of the post-Ferguson era and the most undermined. Ed Woodward vetoed moves for Mourinho's recommendations during the 2018 summer transfer window and cultivated a player-power culture by siding with Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial.
Mourinho had the backing of the hardcore contingent. "Ole's at the wheel" started out as "Jose's at the wheel" after United's spirited victory at Juventus in November 2018. When we returned to our hotel, United supporters were belting it out, dangling out of bars as the carabineri stewed on the opposite side of the road.
For those of us in the press box, he was box office. There was the football heritage sermon, unloading on MUTV, that time he arrived half-an-hour early for a press conference and went ahead with it, leaving the 'late' arrivals miffed. "Everybody knows, I don’t need the Chelsea manager to say I made mistakes in the past. And I will make in the future hopefully. I celebrated goals running 50 metres, I celebrated goals sliding on my knees, celebrations jumping in the crowd. I’m not free of that, especially if we score a winning goal in a specific moment I am not free to have an out of control reaction.
He browsed their Twitter profiles and occasionally came across something useful. Gary Lineker created a mountain out of a molehill after Mourinho despaired at Marcus Rashford's profligacy against Young Boys in November 2018. When Ferguson's frustrated reaction to an airborne Cristiano Ronaldo pot-shot resurfaced against Wigan in 2009 Mourinho referenced it at a press conference.
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