I've just watched the Chelsea v Sunderland game - check out Mourinho's (already) twice-stated "congratulations" speech.
Yes, a top manager, of course, but the only reason people outside Chelsea take him seriously outside the 90 minutes is that he's supposed to be "interesting" and a "character". Well, I suppose there are a lot of people living very dull lives, and that it never occurs to them that the tiny handful of people in modern sport who don't talk like emotionless robots are only behaving in exactly the way that almost everybody else behaves all the time.
I'm aware of the irony of troubling to come on here to write about this, but it's precisely because it p1sses me off that so many saps so readily fall for the act. I would include most reporters and TV pundits but of course it's in their interests to play along because they have to keep the pretence going in order that their employers may continue to sell advertising. As such, I always take their pronouncements on supposed characters with a very large pinch of salt.
Yes, a top manager, of course, but the only reason people outside Chelsea take him seriously outside the 90 minutes is that he's supposed to be "interesting" and a "character". Well, I suppose there are a lot of people living very dull lives, and that it never occurs to them that the tiny handful of people in modern sport who don't talk like emotionless robots are only behaving in exactly the way that almost everybody else behaves all the time.
I'm aware of the irony of troubling to come on here to write about this, but it's precisely because it p1sses me off that so many saps so readily fall for the act. I would include most reporters and TV pundits but of course it's in their interests to play along because they have to keep the pretence going in order that their employers may continue to sell advertising. As such, I always take their pronouncements on supposed characters with a very large pinch of salt.
