All posts tagged "Jose Mourinho"

  • Rivaling ideologies to go head-to-head as Chelsea face Arsenal

    Jose Mourinho is not used to losing. In five full seasons as a Premier League manager, split between his two tenures at Chelsea, he has only lost little more than ten percent of his matches.  Moreover, he’s...

    • Posted September 18, 2015
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  • Chelsea can right the ship but can Mourinho stay afloat?

    In 2004, Jose Mourinho began to build a ruthless, effective Chelsea team using many of the players that he inherited along with a few key signings in his first season at the club. Building on a dominant...

    • Posted August 31, 2015
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  • Reviewing the Premier League’s midweek storylines

    The Premier League’s opening weekend has closed and there are a few dry days before the next round of mouth-watering fixtures begin again. Richard Lewis reviews a few football headlines that have kept the English papers buzzing...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • Don’t think Mourinho doesn’t have a plan for Falcao

    The episode of Andriy Schevchenko could have hung over Jose Mourinho’s career. It was a high-profile, big-money flop, still the seventh most expensive transfer to an English club, almost a decade on. At the time, it was...

    • Posted June 19, 2015
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  • How Mourinho reinvents mind-games

    Arsene Wenger was right, Chelsea can play a “boring” brand of football, and their last eight wins have all been by one-goal margins, including today’s title-winner against Crystal Palace But as a football manager, one doesn’t always...

    • Posted May 3, 2015
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 2-1 QPR – Three Thoughts

    Only an Eden Hazard penalty following a stupid, and slightly soft call, but nonetheless stupid, challenge from Eduardo Vargas, gave Chelsea the three points, and while it was a tighter result and match than Chelsea would have...

    • Posted November 1, 2014
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  • Is Tim Howard really the villain after his fight with Costa?

    No matter what, opinions will be divided. Roberto Martinez called Diego Costa’s actions “childish”. Jose Mourinho claimed his star forward an innocent “mature” guy. But whatever the case, Costa taunting Seamus Coleman after the full-back scored a...

    • Posted August 31, 2014
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  • Now would be the time to drop Iker Casillas

    There are two types of goalkeepers – the early bloomer and the late bloomer.  Tim Howard is one of the latter; at 35 he seems to be reaching his prime after an incredible World Cup this summer,...

    • Posted August 22, 2014
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  • 20 teams in 20 days – Chelsea

    Jose Mourinho has a very specific management style. “He’s the most loyal, the most caring manager I’ve ever worked with,” according to Chelsea legend Frank Lampard. “I might be biased, because I love the man, but he...

    • Posted July 30, 2014
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  • Courtois and Cech – Different, yet equal

    Both Thibaut Courtois and Petr Cech broke into their respective local league side’s starting lineups before the age of eighteen.  Two goalkeeping prodigies when they were teenagers, they both had, and still have, brilliant shot-stopping abilities at...

    • Posted July 25, 2014
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