Irish Sunday Mirror

MULLOCK

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Costa’s cross into his path 12 yards out, even the world’s best goalkeeper didn’t stand a hope in hell.

It was at the same end of the famous old stadium that Costinha scored to help forge the Mourinho legend 14 years ago. The Wolves boss was a journeyman goalkeeper back then, No.2 in the Porto squad. His six appearance­s in two seasons at the club suggest he was there to just make up the numbers. But it was then that he was bitten by the coaching bug. After all, hadn’t Mourinho himself been a goalkeeper who got no higher than the Portuguese second division? Once Moutinho brought Wolves level, this was the apprentice meeting the master on equal terms. Espirito Santo, born on Christmas Day and with a name that translates as ‘Holy Spirit’, allowed himself to shake his fist

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