José Mourinho still has place at top table: proof is in the pudding
He may have lost clash of styles with Pep Guardiola but it would be fitting for his Roma to become European champions alongside Manchester City
I wonder if Pep Guardiola still hangs out with Ferran Adrià, the revered Catalan chef whose legendary restaurant El Bulli was widely considered the acme of the gastronomic art. Watching Manchester City’s molecular deconstruction of Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, one had the same sense of seeing a sphere of human activity raised to its highest possible form. This was football to delight and tingle every sense, football as prepared by an innovative, obsessive perfectionist-hedonist who has thought out every last tactical micro-garnish and lovingly tweezered it into place, a performance to evoke awed gasps from the moment the cloche was lifted.
The following night, José Mourinho simply laid a damp tea-towel over the second leg of
