Has Mourinho talked his way off the top?
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- Created: Friday, 21 March 2014 19:57
- Written by Kris Coulthard
Football is no stranger to mind games, managers saying this or that to try to provoke a response, and we have seen that sometimes it not only works but the effects can be very public. Take Rafa Benitez and Kevin Keegan for example. However, over the last month or so José Mourinho has persisted in trying a contradictory approach to put pressure on the opposition, and it seems to have backfired.
The FA Cup may never escape the stigma that is now attached to it. There will always be a question mark over whether the clubs, the players, the managers and the fans really care about it the way they used to. Does that ‘magic’ that was always associated with the cup still really exist?