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Same thing happened with Macheda.. Surprised they haven't learned yet.. I'd say most Chelsea fans now understand not to over hype youngsters, post-Kakuta. Just having a 'hunch' isn't enough, unless they've done it on a consistent basis and in the big games.

Well, that certainly takes the whole 'Eva should be allowed in the showers' argument we had in the gay footballers thread to another level.

Well, obviously not, because as you 'sort of allude to', it's all about consistency. Mourinho's is unmatchable..

. Sold Mata (still bitter) . Rival fans are 'moulding' the minds of Chelsea fans with the 'Bus meme' epidemic . Hazard fans are currently displeased (even though the Belgium coach criticised him for the same reasons)

Chelsea & Inter were somewhat equals, so in that case.. the managers are out-thinking each other, yes. Small teams/games are irrelevant here, notice you had to take it out of context (again) in order to have a point. I said Mourinho was a big game specialist, if you disagree with that 'do so'... don't change the subject.

Great way to take the game out of context, 26 seconds of youtube (hmmm).. Vs watching the game and knowing what happened football-wise over two legs. Mourinho is the big game specialist, Carlo was out-thought just like Pellegrini at the Etihad. Feel free to post whatever anomaly in his career you want to disprove that fact.. Carlo failed us in Europe like he failed Milan domestically.

Then you have a shocking memory, Inter rightly knocked us out. Check the archives of this forum and that was the general consensus, nothing like Barca 09 or Liverpool circa-05. We were embarrassing under Carlo in the CL, so much so.. that we actually 'relied' on any conspiracy theory we could get our hands on. There was a penalty 'incident' with Ramires against United in the CL, but again.. they knocked us out convincingly.

It's so easy to sugarcoat that season with Carlo..

Carlo won the title from an offside goal, he prevented Jose from being the only manager to win the league in the Roman era.. by the skin of his teeth. Carlo had Drogba, Jose has.. The grass isn't greener on the other side.

Yep. The guy who invented controversial on TalkChelsea is a blind Mourinho worshipper who thinks he's god.

[Mourinho fan boys] x1,000

[i'm not a Mourinho worshipper] x4 [Mourinho is not always right] x7 [Mourinho is not god] x5 And these are the same people saying they don't follow the... 'flock'.

If a real legend like Mourinho isn't getting any 'respect' when people construct their posts, then you can be damn sure Mata doesn't deserve any.

Funny what a few sensational headlines can do, people lose perspective. The 'bus memes' via social media have tainted his image, it's as if some fans don't have any core views of their own, and just go with the flow. New forum rule: If you end your argument with.. 'I'm not a Mourinho worshiper', that's means you're in the right and completely objective!

Don't try and twist it or reinterpret the post for your own gains. I said he was the face of the club.. 'symbol, however you wanna word that', and then a fact (which makes the Hazard argument void). Mourinho is the biggest star/celebrity/brand that's ever been associated with the club, it's not even debatable.

No, Mourinho is the face of the club, he's also the most marketable personality ever associated with Chelsea Football Club.

That's what happens when you stop wearing suits, he looks like the manager of a pub team now.

You know what the worst thing is.. history never remembers the losers, Pellegrini has blasted Mourinho this season, no respect, no class.. yet his smug little face will lift the title because of him. City will be celebrating, and our contributions this seasons will be for fuck all. We have done no better than Arsenal, CL football..

Great book, it should be a mandatory purchase for all humans.

I hate those cringeworthy 'self help books', but this is the real deal, well reasoned/researched, no pseudo wishy/washy shit. Here's a few more extracts, 'typed out by myself, from my own docs'.. The key, then, to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don’t simple absorb information--we internalise it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use. We look for connections between the various elements we are learning, hidden laws that we can perceive in the apprenticeship phase. If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not quickly forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to out mistakes. As we progress, we start to question some of the assumptions and conventions we have learned along the way. Soon we begin to experiment and become increasingly active. At all points in the various moments leading to mastery, we attack with intensity. Every moment, every experience contains deep lessons for us. We are continuously awake, never merely going through the motions. - Mastery (Page 260) First, it is essential to build into the creative process an initial period that is open-ended. You give yourself time to dream and wander, to start out in a loose and unfocused manner. In this period, you allow the project to associate itself with certain powerful emotions, ones that naturally come out of you as you focus on your ideas. It is always easy to tighten up your ideas later on, and to make your project increasingly realistic and rational. But if you begin with a feeling of tightness and pressure, focusing on the funding, the competition, or people’s opinions, you will stifle the associative powers of the brain and quickly turn the work into something without joy or life. Second, it is best to have wide knowledge of your field and other fields, giving your brain more possible associations and connections. Third, to keep this process alive, you must never settle into complacency, as if your initial vision represents the endpoint. You must cultivate profound dissatisfaction with your work and the need to constantly improve your ideas, along with a sense of uncertainty--you are not exactly sure where to go next, and this uncertainty drives the creative urge and keeps it fresh. Any kind of resistance or obstacle that crosses your path should be seen as yet another chance to improve your work. Finally, you must come to embrace slowness as a virtue in itself. When it comes to creative endeavours, time is always relative. Whether your project takes months or years to complete, you will always experience a sense of impatience and a desire to get to the end. The single greatest action you can take for acquiring creative power is to reverse this natural impatience. You take pleasure in the laborious research process; you enjoy the slow cooking of the idea, the organic growth that naturally takes shape over time. You do not unnaturally draw out the process, which will create its own problems (we all need deadlines), but the longer you can allow the project to absorb your mental energies, the richer it will become. Imagine yourself years in the future looking back at the work you have done. From that future vantage point, the extra months and years you devoted to the process will not seem painful or laborious at all. It is an illusion of the present that will vanish. Time is your greatest ally. - Mastery (Page 223) The books 'outro'.. - Mastery (Pages 309-310)

It's not deep at all, and he left England whilst Rafa was still at the helm. Everything revolved around him and Rafa during that era, the Liverpool fans were just a casualty of it. The only club Mourinho 'hates' (your word, not mine) is Barcelona.

To not be hated, or to be less hated for being successful, you need to offer something for the neutral football fan.

HIS protege has a chance of winning the league, Pellegrini however.. is a GENUINE rival and someone who has openly criticised Jose. Mourinho's history/bad blood with Liverpool revolves around Rafa Benitez not Liverpool per se.

It doesn't matter what you want, Mourinho wants Liverpool to win the league.

"Save us"?, lmao.. Mourinho has no real deep hatred for Liverpool bar Rafa of course, and let's not forget he'd rather his own protege 'Brendan' won the league over Pellegrini.