A couple of weeks ago, you may recall, I wrote about the renewed importance of the Manager in football. Cunningly, I "forgot" to mention one very important Manager - The Special One. You see, I was betting on him making a great year an unprecedented one - the first ever Italian treble of Coppa, Serie A and Champions League. The most amazing thing about it is not that Inter did it but the fact that the vast majority of people cannot name a single Inter player, but everyone know they are managed by Mourinho. In the age of footballer celebrity the biggest celebrity of all is a Manager.
And now, finally, Real Madrid got it. A group of Galacticos is all very well for marketing. To win trophies you need an Uber-Galactico-Manager (UGM) to turn them into a team. The only major title won by Real in recent years was La Liga under Capello - the first manager in years who can control the super-egos of the England squad. And now they have the biggest UGM by a country mile. All one can hope is that Pep Guardiola, Messi, Xavi and Iniesta have enough talent between them to make sure Mourinho fails.
PS 440km down. 560km to go.
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