1. On Man United fans
2. On pundits
3. On Saipan
4. On playing for Ireland
5. On Mick McCarthy
6. On players’ wives
7. On Liam Miller’s excuses for continually showing up late for training
8. On Rio Ferdinand
9. On his team’s performance against Middlesbrough during that famous MUTV rant
10. To Jack Charlton, after Keane arrived half an hour late for the Ireland team bus
11. On diving
12. On his position at Manchester United
13. On Gary Neville after that infamous tunnel spat with Patrick Vieira
14. On his return to the Ireland set-up
15. On Jamie Redknapp during the 1996 FA Cup final
16. On the 2002 World Cup debacle
17. When asked about United potentially giving Alex Ferguson the bumps back in his playing days
18. On Alex Ferguson, after his book revelations
19. On Cristiano Ronaldo’s Champions League celebrations
20. On Patrick Vieira’s all-time Man United-Arsenal XI
21. On Arsenal and selfies
And finally, here’s one of the most memorable interviews he gave:
A version of this piece was previously published on 10 August 2014.
Anyone else sick of all this ‘he lost the dressing room’ rubbish as if its acceptable for players to down tools or not try because they dislike the manager? If I was a Chelsea fan, I’d be outraged. These players are grown men or astronomical wages. The fact that it’s seen as acceptable in modern football for players to not bother sums up everything that’s wrong with it
To be fair to some of the players beano, n there’s a few of them that I really don’t like, I think it’s mainly mourinhos attitude / ego / bizarre post match interviews, and his deplorable treatment of the medical staff that is responsible for this! Players are responsible for their own performances I agree but when there’s been a consistent and prolonged malfunction like this one then the buck has to stop with the manager. And frankly his behaviour throughout this whole period has been disgraceful. If the manager is behaving in that way, why would the players play or behave any better. ?
Redundancy of 40.000.000 €!! Happy days special one…
Maybe now the players who have been playing totally rubbish will start getting the stick they deserve with no mourinho to blame or to Base the news stories on when Chelsea lose.
just be cafeful passing stamford bridge cause they giving ev1 3points:-)
Absolutely insane sacking Mourinho. After all he’s done for the club you would think he earned the right to stay until the end of the season at least. If 2 or 3 players were an issue in the dressing room he would have gotten rid in January.
Did you same the same about Garry Monk?
why did this take so long