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José Mourinho has accused the leaders of the Premier League of double standards with regard to managerial behavior in the technical area.
The Tottenham head coach believes other coaches are getting away with “incredible things” on the touchline, while he is an example of good behavior, having committed a foul in the past.
Mourinho, who has received a number of bans on the touchline in the past, including for kicking a bottle of water, criticized Jurgen Klopp’s antics during Liverpool’s narrow win at Anfield on Wednesday night.
At the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, Pep Guardiola appeared to grab the electronic plaque from the fourth official after Anthony Taylor became angry with four minutes of injury time, but was not penalized.
“I was for many years a good example of bad behavior on the touchline, and I was always punished for it,” said Mourinho Sky sports before the Spurs clash with Leicester, live Super Sunday.
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Jurgen Klopp and José Mourinho join at the end of Liverpool’s 2-1 win at home to Tottenham
“Right now, I honestly consider myself, and I think the referees feel the same, a great example of good behavior on the touchline.
“But I see others doing incredible things, some are going in a direction that I would never go, and nothing happens. I can talk about that, because I live it. I live day to day [on] the touch line “.
When asked why they got away with it, Mourinho said: “Probably because we don’t say anything.”
José Mourinho dropped a bottle holder while he was Manchester United manager in 2018
Sad for Slaven, but welcome Sam
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Pep Guardiola was unhappy with the amount of extra time at the end of Manchester City’s home draw with West Brom
Mourinho was asked which coach he would least like to fight with in 2007, and he answered without hesitation: “Big Sam. He would kill me!”
Thirteen years later, Allardyce has been appointed coach at West Bromich Albion, replacing Slaven Bilic, a change that has Mourinho on two minds.
“Right now I don’t fight anyone because I learned to behave,” he said. “But I promise Big Sam that I’m sure I’m not going to fight. Sure!”
“I am very sad with the departure of Slaven Bilic. It shows what football is like today. Promotion last year and this year seven points from a very difficult start. I feel very, very bad for him,” he says.
“On the other hand, for Big Sam and Small Sammy, both back, I am very happy. They are good boys, they are good friends, they still have a lot to give, even though people think that after so many years you get tired and lose ambition, these guys don’t get tired, they don’t lose ambition. “
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Nothing given to Rodgers on a silver plate
On Sunday, Mourinho will go head-to-head with a coach who used to be his assistant, Brendan Rodgers, with his Leicester squad challenging to the top of the Premier League table.
Mourinho says he’s delighted to have played a role in Rodgers’ development as a coach and insists that “they didn’t give him anything on a silver platter.”
“It’s not about me giving them a chance,” he said. “It’s about them having that potential to develop. If they feel like I have any responsibility for what they did, then great, of course, I’m very happy about that, but it’s about them.
“Brendan had to go to lower divisions and smaller clubs before reaching Liverpool and Scotland [Celtic] and went to Leicester. Nothing was given him on a silver platter. I always felt that I was a talented young boy with a desire to learn.
“He is a fantastic coach. That is all I can say, it has nothing to do with our relationship, and I am very happy that he is doing so well.”
Son would trade Puskas for Anfield victory
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Heung-Min Son’s magnificent goal in Tottenham’s 5-0 win over Burnley earned him the Puskas Award. The goal also won the Premier League Goal of the Season award for the 2019/20 season.
Heung-Min Son picked up the FIFA Puskas award for goal of the year this week, for his brilliant solo career across the field last December, much to Mourinho’s delight.
But he revealed: “One of the things he told me about the award is that he would trade it for a win on Wednesday. [against Liverpool]. This says everything about him and the team player that he is.
“It was the goal of his life. Of course he will score, and has already scored, more important goals than that, especially since it was in a victory where the goal was not crucial to win the game, but that was the goal.” of his career,
“It’s a goal that all the Maradona, all the Messi in this world would love to score as well. And he did.”
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