Mourinho’s no frown-and-outer

JOSE MOURINHO has every right to tell his critics to ‘shush’.

A lot of what you see from him is a sketch. He likes to be the pantomime villain in front of the cameras but away from them he is a decent man.

I met him at the recent Game For Grenfell, an event he attended when he could have been managing Manchester United’s Legends against Barcelona on the same day.

When we turn on the telly and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is smiling, we smile with him. When Mourinho is frowning we say he is sucking the life out of the game.

But I know who I would rather have managing my club.

Let’s not paint Mourinho (left) as someone who parks the bus and sucks the life out of games.

For him football is about three points for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss – that is all he cares about. And it has brought him huge success.

It is not about philosophies or trying to be an innovator – it is about winning trophies.

And people can count them all when he has finished.