Mourinho makes me grateful for Wenger

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While I can’t condone the behaviour of Barcelona’s players last night, I am so glad to see Real Madrid, and Jose Mourinho in particular, fail.
Yes, the likes of Pedro, Busquets and Alves were diving and playacting to a nasty extent, but from the comments I’m seeing everywhere you’d think that never happens in this country. That’s simply not true, end of.
It’s not nice to see that from anyone, but at least you can say that Barca’s approach to the game is otherwise flawless, and very pleasing on the eye.
After getting lucky and beating Barca on the third attempt in the Copa del Rey final, the press jumped at the chance to hail ‘the special one’ for stifling the attack of one of the finest club sides of the modern era, as though he was managing Stoke or Birmingham and had no other choice but to play this incredibly dull defensive game.
His work at Porto was commendable, bringing the best out of a largely ordinary team to win the Champions League. This was indeed a great achievement, but since then he has been at big clubs and has always had an enviable transfer budget to spend, and yet his style has always been the same.
And as well as being anti-football on the pitch, he is the same off it, as he showed yesterday before, during and after the game with Barcelona; constant mind games, moaning and feeling sorry for himself. So why is he so loved? Why is he hailed as a great character? Why does everyone in the English game miss him so much? He provides the headlines, that’s for sure. It’s pathetic.
He’s definitely one of the nastiest characters I’ve seen in football, but you’ll never see him being labelled ‘Moanrinho’, unlike the abuse Arsene ‘Whinger’ gets any time he dares to complain. As far as I remember, our boss has never complained about referee conspiracies this season, even though he’d certainly have more of a case than Mourinho.
We at least showed the special one that it is possible to beat Barca with attacking football this season, even though we don’t have the luxury of big-money attacking players like Ronaldo, Ozil, Di Maria, not to mention Benzema, Higuain and Adebayor all on the bench. Yet, we get slaughtered for daring to defend our lead at the Nou Camp. When Jose tries for a 0-0 at home in the first leg, he’s labelled a genius. I just don’t get it.
I’ve been critical of Wenger this season, but watching Mourinho last night was a healthy reminder that we can forget how lucky we are.