Sunday, April 23, 2006

So sorry to ruin your double dreams you sore loser

What a sour grape this Jose Mourinho is. He can never accept defeat gracefully or graciously. In fact neither has he been magnanimous in victories.

For him defeat is always a result of poor refereeing or bad luck, never because the other team had been better. His team is always the better one and somehow did not deserve to lose.

Yesterday’s Liverpool’s win over Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-finals is yet another example of how delusional Mourinho is fast becoming. Everyone who watched the game knew Liverpool were much better in the first hour. They were running Chelsea ragged, making the league champion-elect very normal.

I won’t dispute that Chelsea did come back into the game in latter stages and did not make it an easy win for Liverpool. However Liverpool won because they were better organized and technically were superior to the team from London. And ultimately they made one less mistake than Chelsea to win.

However for Mourinho, that was not the case. As has been the norm with him now, he claims, his team played better football, they lost because some important decisions went against them and that his strikers were unlucky in front of the goal.

Well get this Jose, Liverpool too had some strong decisions made against them, and their strikers too were unlucky in not ending Chelsea much sooner.

Mourinho thinks his team has the divine right to win at all times and at all costs. All he does is go on and on about how his team had been superior and did not deserve to lose. He didn’t even congratulate Liverpool for winning a spot in the finals. And he had the cheeks to continually speak about how Liverpool is way behind his team in terms of progress.

He insists that he has forgotten how Liverpool wrecked his dreams on winning the Champions League last season, but at the same breath still talks about the ‘dubious’ goal that put them out.

Why can’t he move on? After all, the record books will show that Liverpool did win the Champions League last season and this season they ruined his dreams of winning the double.

Next season, whether he admits it or not, Liverpool will prove to be a much tougher opponent to his team and he better, by then, learn to admit defeat graciously.

He also needs to grow up and be genuine in congratulating the winning team.

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