Mourinho reveals Maka penalty secretSaturday
After a long, long season and an equally long time celebrating Chelsea’s first League title in fifty years, jubilant Chelsea manager, José Mourinho shared his feelings.
“I’m happy, I’m tired, I’d like to go for a holiday. I’m proud. I’m happy for myself, the players and fans and everyone associated with Chelsea. I have a lot of feelings at the same time.
“But we did it.”
He continued saying that maybe his team’s success had surpassed the expectations of even those within the club.
“I know that a lot of people didn’t believe in our first season we could do it.”
Mourinho will not be sitting back on his laurels though.
“My nature is not to be happy with what we did. We want more. This is the beginning of a process, not the end. This is my first season and I have five more years of a contract. I want to win more for me and more for Chelsea. The players have a good taste and want more.”
Apart from his Championship winning team, Mourinho had the players’ families and all his backroom staff assembled together on the pitch to join in the celebrations. And in true Mourinho fashion, he warned them:
“I told them to enjoy today because tomorrow is another day.”
This is the third consecutive season that Mourinho has won a league title and he revealed the moment when he first believed that he would be bringing the title to Stamford Bridge was when the Blues beat West Brom away.
“That day Arsenal drew at home and we were top for the first time. After that, we never left the first position. Week after week, you get the feeling that you are strong, tactically and mentally.
“But the game where we celebrated for the first time, not because we had won the title but because we knew it would very difficult to take us from here, was in the bus after we beat Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Arsenal played after us and lost, in Bolton, I think.
“From that moment, we believed inside it was very difficult for us to lose.”
The afternoon’s game almost paled into insignificance following the lengthy celebrations but the decision to allow Claude Makelele to take the stoppage time penalty with the game scoreless was definitely not part of the Mourinho masterplan.
“At half-time, I told them they were not playing bad but were playing without ambition. I told them to try to win. I put up diagrams in the dressing room,” Mourinho explained.
“Penalties: Frank Lampard. But if it’s a penalty in the 90th minute with the score 2-0, then Makelele. So when the penalty comes everybody thinks what do we do?”
Whilst it may not have been in Mourinho’s thoughts for Makelele to take a penalty, the Frenchman clearly had other ideas.
“Makelele was practising penalties yesterday after training,” the Premier League-winning manager revealed, cringing, “and he missed two out of two!”
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“I’m happy, I’m tired, I’d like to go for a holiday. I’m proud. I’m happy for myself, the players and fans and everyone associated with Chelsea. I have a lot of feelings at the same time.
“But we did it.”
He continued saying that maybe his team’s success had surpassed the expectations of even those within the club.
“I know that a lot of people didn’t believe in our first season we could do it.”
Mourinho will not be sitting back on his laurels though.
“My nature is not to be happy with what we did. We want more. This is the beginning of a process, not the end. This is my first season and I have five more years of a contract. I want to win more for me and more for Chelsea. The players have a good taste and want more.”
Apart from his Championship winning team, Mourinho had the players’ families and all his backroom staff assembled together on the pitch to join in the celebrations. And in true Mourinho fashion, he warned them:
“I told them to enjoy today because tomorrow is another day.”
This is the third consecutive season that Mourinho has won a league title and he revealed the moment when he first believed that he would be bringing the title to Stamford Bridge was when the Blues beat West Brom away.
“That day Arsenal drew at home and we were top for the first time. After that, we never left the first position. Week after week, you get the feeling that you are strong, tactically and mentally.
“But the game where we celebrated for the first time, not because we had won the title but because we knew it would very difficult to take us from here, was in the bus after we beat Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Arsenal played after us and lost, in Bolton, I think.
“From that moment, we believed inside it was very difficult for us to lose.”
The afternoon’s game almost paled into insignificance following the lengthy celebrations but the decision to allow Claude Makelele to take the stoppage time penalty with the game scoreless was definitely not part of the Mourinho masterplan.
“At half-time, I told them they were not playing bad but were playing without ambition. I told them to try to win. I put up diagrams in the dressing room,” Mourinho explained.
“Penalties: Frank Lampard. But if it’s a penalty in the 90th minute with the score 2-0, then Makelele. So when the penalty comes everybody thinks what do we do?”
Whilst it may not have been in Mourinho’s thoughts for Makelele to take a penalty, the Frenchman clearly had other ideas.
“Makelele was practising penalties yesterday after training,” the Premier League-winning manager revealed, cringing, “and he missed two out of two!”
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