News from the Glass House

Here’s a special treat for our readers. Apparently, Jose Mourinho (aka The Immune One) has been holding forth on the matter of justice and the result is two press pieces, nicely timed for the panto season and respectively entitled ‘Mourinho – I Don’t Like to Win Unjustly’ and ‘Mourinho: I don’t tell stars to dive.’ Both pieces are supported by the following quotes attributed to the Chelsea manager: “the end doesn’t justify the means!” and “I am a just person, I don’t like to lose because of an injustice and I don’t like to win because of an injustice.”

Those who do not merely fall about laughing might be forgiven for thinking that the above words raise more questions than they answer. Such as, what was it about Jose Mourinho’s Porto side that so incensed Sir Alex Ferguson? Or, how does Mourinho reconcile his attack on Everton’s Andy Johnson for alleged ‘diving’ with his apparent acceptance of diving from Drogba, Robben, Cole, Lampard et al? Or, how does little Cesc Fabregas poleaxe the mighty Drogba? Or, if Mourinho doesn’t tell (or should that be ‘teach’?) them to dive, who does? And why doesn’t he put a stop to it? Or, isn’t harassment of the referee ‘unjust’? Or…?

Or, as PFA chief Gordon Taylor put it succinctly, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.