Deconstructing José: Whatever happened to the Special One?
69 min readDec 24, 2015
Remember that suave, debonair, relentless genius of a football manager who transformed the English footballing landscape for three extraordinary years a decade ago? Remember how his demonic desire to win, win and win again seemed to bend the whole of European football to his will on numerous occasions between 2002 and 2010? Remember how, no matter how many deigned to hate him, they’d…