Why mourinho hates barcelona

The crowd reacted badly when he raced on to the pitch to celebrate Inter's success at the final whistle. Last night's match was the 10th between Mourinho and Barcelona in the last six years, with the Catalans having faced Chelsea on six occasions and Inter four times. Six of those matches have come in knockout ties, with Mourinho having eliminated the Catalans from Europe on two occasions. Mourinho claimed the key to success against Barcelona was relinquishing possession. Mourinho instructed Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos to deliberately get themselves sent off, knowing they would miss the final match but their records would be clean for the knockout matches.

For this, he got a two match ban himself. To be fair, he learned at the feet of the master while at Chelsea, observing how Sir Alex used the media to influence referees and others. Mourinho has perfected the art, but at times behaves as if he is untouchable, as seen in his astonishing outburst after the Barcelona match mentioned earlier.

At Chelsea, he was reported to have hidden in a laundry basket to get around UEFA sanctions and get instructions to his team when he was banned from communicating during a Champions League tie. On two other occasions, he was reputed to have circumvented a similar ban by sending messages from his laptop in the stands and also by communicating to the earpiece of one of the coaching assistants.

The manager at Manchester United is given more power than the coach at Barcelona or Porto. Could Mourinho be trusted not to bring the Reds' name into disrepute to the detriment of his team? With less than a minute to go and Real Madrid losing on aggregate to Barcelona in the Spanish Supercup, Marcelo, the Madrid full back, committed a brutal tackle on Cesc Fabregas on the halfway line. It was senseless and pointless.

Marcelo was red carded with two others following the ensuing brawl. Jose Mourinho is a great motivator. The trouble is he gets his players wound up to a fever pitch, especially in the critical matches and between the two Spanish super teams.

From the moment he arrived in Spain, he seems to have been intent on winding up Barcelona to destabilise them. Certainly they weren't saints on Wednesday. Chelsea were involved in several unruly matches, with mass brawls and haranguing referees, while Mourinho was at Stamford Bridge, most notably in their defeat by Barcelona in Afterwards, he was quoted as saying "I'm so proud of my players for fighting the way they did,".

On those six occasions , , , , and , Barcelona won the Champions three times! The Catalans only won four Champions Leagues in their history, three of them had Mourinho in it. In two of them, Barcelona beat a Mourinho-managed team en route to the title, and in the other one, they beat the team that eliminated Mourinho Manchester United in To be fair, in the four ties where Barcelona faced a Mourinho-led team, Barcelona and Mourinho split triumphs, but Barcelona won their ties a lot more comfortably and, unlike Mourinho, went on to win the competition on both occasions.

In a game that Real needed to win in order to have some title hopes, Mourinho set his team out to get a lackluster draw that basically handed Barcelona the league title. The Copa del Rey title, ground out in extra time, was weak consolation, since the semifinals of the Champions League once again proved that Mourinho was no match for FC Barcelona.

Mourinho had no answer to Lionel Messi. In the end, Barcelona took the two most important trophies, while Mourinho had to settle for the Spanish Cup. While it's not exactly bad, it's not what you expect from a manager who supposedly has Barcelona figured out. But that's just not the case. Several times, he clashed with Fernandez between the rival benches.

The home fans behind the bench who witnessed it were stunned at the bravado shown by the unknown young man who was giving it back to their imposing manager, on his own turf. Jose Mourinho, 33 years old, would not back down and he frequently questioned decisions. Who, he seemed to be asking, are you to stand up to me? Not that this fazed the Portuguese upstart. Because even before winning the Champions League with Porto; before becoming the Special One at Chelsea ; before being the first manager to guide an Italian side to an unprecedented league, cup and European Cup treble; before taking his place at the centre of the football universe at Real Madrid ; before recapturing the league with the Blues; before taking the reins at Old Trafford, he had a certain arrogance.

It was a swagger that would later fuel his success and, at the time, give him the confidence to confront the imposing Fernandez despite only being a coach, an interpreter — a member of the Barcelona staff who, in this instance, would be saved from a pitchside pasting by his closest ally in the team, Josep Guardiola. Mauricio Pochettino has left a great legacy at Tottenham.

Spurs now have two options to build on it. Mourinho arrived in Catalonia in summer along with Bobby Robson, to whom he'd been an assistant for four years at Sporting and Porto. The sceptics were waiting for the unlikely double act. Mourinho knew, though. Not satisfied with that, he also learned to understand Catalan, to add to English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

The two roles were incompatible and that became apparent after just two or three press conferences. We had to pull him back from translating.

The journalists present remember it slightly differently. He continued to translate, but only inside the dressing room and not to the press. Mourinho had got in with Robson because of his linguistic skills in at Sporting, though it was new Sporting president Sousa Cintra, keen to support his foreign manager, who appointed him.

Jose was to prove a marvellous asset, covering my back and looking after me while building up a good rapport with the players of the three clubs we have been at together.

Whenever I needed his support he was there, even though it often meant putting himself in the firing line. Robson asked Mourinho what he was saying. The embarrassed translator explained that the president was telling everyone the performance was a disgrace to Sporting and that he was going to speak to Mr Robson as soon as they were home.