Over in Rome on Sunday night, Jose Mourinho will take charge of his 1000th competitive, professional football match as a manager. Considering everything that is occurring in football and sport, in general, right now, Mourinho’s achievement has gone under the radar. In many ways, Mourinho has set the template for the modern manager, which is ironic in that so many of us consider his ways to be outdated. Who, a couple of decades ago, would have envisaged a manager getting paid £25million a year or more? Chelsea fine patheticIf a Sunday League game is cancelled because there is no referee available, we know who to blame.

Source: Daily Mirror September 12, 2021 09:00 UTC