CLEMENT OUT TO TEACH MOURINHO LESSON

PAUL CLEMENT intends to take Jose Mourinho to school today and prove he learnt well at the feet of his former master.

A decade ago, Clement, then 35, had just moved from Fulham to become youth coach at Chelsea, where Mourinho ruled the roost.

Ten years on, the Swansea City boss takes his team to Old Trafford to face Mourinho’s Manchester United for the first time as managerial equals.

“He was the professor and I was the student,” says Clement of their five months together at Stamford Bridge, before Mourinho left the first time.

“I was definitely in awe of him. You were never quite sure where you stood with him, either. He created a distance between people.

“He was very strong on the psychological side, on managing people – both players and staff. He really kept you on your toes.”

So eager was Clement to peer inside his mentor’s mind that he had friends at Chelsea send him sketches of training sessions, even before he had left Fulham. “But it’s not until you actually get to stand on the sidelines and see it, that you can see what he is like as a coach,” Clement (right) said.

“I learned how to organise training, how to run training, how to get maximum use out of every moment. I saw a real high-level coach – intense, competitive, organised, maximising use of time, very stimulating for players – activity, physical, mental – it was really impressive.”

But now the teaching needs to pay off for Swansea, who are locked in a grim battle for Premier League survival.

“It would be fantastic to win there as it would give us real momentum with three games left,” Clement added.