Be humble Jose, warns former mentor
AFP, March, 2005
NEWCASTLE, England (AFP) — Premiership leaders Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho should learn to take defeat gracefully warned his former mentor Sir Bobby Robson.
Robson worked with Mourinho at both Barcelona and FC Porto over a six year spell and he urged the Portuguese manager to take the blows as well as he took the victories.
Mourinho reacted to defeat by Barcelona in their Champions League first knockout round first leg defeat by refusing to speak as is compulsory to the press because he alleged that the referee Anders Frisk had gone into the Barcelona dressing room.
On Sunday he was sent from the bench because he was believed to have made a provocative gesture - by raising his finger to his mouth - to Liverpool fans when his team levelled late in the League Cup final clash which ended in a 3-2 victory for the London outfit.
He said it had ...