What a special run!

JOSE: WELL DONE REDS BUT MY RECORD IS HARD TO BEAT

JOSE MOURINHO admits it is going to take something extra special to crack the 86-game unbeaten home record set by his Chelsea team.

Liverpool’s long run without a Premier League defeat at Anfield came to an end on Thursday after 68 games, stretching over almost four years.

Chelsea, however, did not lose a single league game at Stamford Bridge from February 2004 until October 2008, a sequence encompassing Mourinho’s first spell at the West London club.

‘The records are there to be broken, even the most incredible ones,’ said the Portuguese, now in charge of Tottenham. ‘There are some records that you feel it’s impossible for somebody to do it.

‘What Liverpool did is amazing and very, very difficult to achieve. Chelsea is still the record, but congratulations to Liverpool for the amazing run they had, not losing at home for so long.’

Mourinho did not lose a league game at the Bridge until deep into his second stint, a defeat by Sunderland in April 2014.

Much of his ‘Special One’ mystique was built around the invincibility of his teams on home soil but the Spurs boss fears bigger teams are increasingly vulnerable to shock results.

‘What was almost a scandal years ago is not any more,’ said Mourinho as he prepared his team for Monday’s FA Cup tie at Wycombe. ‘Any team can go to any stadium and get a result.

‘The teams considered with less potential are not like that as much any more.

‘I don’t open my mouth any more and say, “Wow, what a crazy result”. There are no more crazy results.

‘Every team, even those with the objective to be champions or top four, I am not surprised if these big teams have a run of matches where confidence drops a bit because of bad results.

‘The reality is that nothing is eternal. Not consecutive victories and not consecutive defeats. Always the next matches are open with open results.’