Jose Mourinho's 6 Most Hypocritical Barcelona Comments

José Mourinho is my favourite manager, but his obsession with Barcelona is getting out of hand. 

Pep Guardiola is the epitome of class, whereas Mourinho is generally classless when he talks about Barça.  The Portuguese manager cannot stop himself from smearing a club that laid the foundations for his lucrative and successful managerial career. 

Here are Mourinho's most hypocritical comments about Barcelona.

José Mourinho believed Lionel Messi was the reason why Asier del Horno was sent off in the 37th minute: 

How do you say cheating in Catalan? Can Messi be suspended for acting? Barcelona is a cultural city with many great theatres and this boy has learned very well. He's learned play-acting.

Watching del Horno attempt to exert his dominance on Messi was like watching a train wreck. 

Eight minutes prior to the red card, referee Terje Hauge leaned on the lenient side when del Horno crunched Messi. 

Leading into the red card, del Horno hacked Messi, but the Argentine kept his balance and veered towards the corner flag. 

Finally, for whatever reason, del Horno launched himself at Messi and was rightly sent off.  This isn't the NFL, where you can shoulder charge opponents. 

What is so hypocritical about Mourinho's quote was that he overlooked del Horno rolling around trying to avoid the red card because he knew he was in trouble.  And do you know who was tied for the second most fouls in the game? 

Del Horno, who only played 37 minutes. 

José Mourinho said Barcelona were lucky winners:

Without taking anything away from them, this victory was partly due to luck. The second goal was very lucky. 

We had a chance to net an equaliser the following minute. It looked like the ball was in, but it wasn't. 

We also had a chance to net a second strike and bring the score up to 3-2, but due to luck, not merit, their goalkeeper cleared a shot by Kaká. 

That's why I believe luck made a difference, but I do not wish to deprive Barcelona of merit.

You know what was lucky? 

Víctor Valdés' giving the ball straight to Ángel di María, whose attempted pass to Karim Benzema was blocked by Sergio Busquets, with the rebound falling to Mesut Özil, whose deflected shot luckily caromed straight to Benzema. 

If you want to talk about lucky, Mourinho shouldn't attempt to convince himself that luck played no part when his underrated Porto side knocked Manchester United out of the UEFA Champions League. 

It was lucky that that injury resulted in a paltry eight minutes for Cristiano Ronaldo. 

It was lucky that Paul Scholes' legitimate goal was ruled offside. 

It was lucky that Phil Neville fouled Edgaras Jankauskas during injury time. 

It was lucky that from the ensuing Benni McCarthy free kick, Tim Howard palmed the ball straight to Costinha, whose goal ignited Mourinho's famous touchline celebration. 

Here, José Mourinho ironically took the moral high ground: 

I saw the Barcelona players trying to put pressure on the referee.

Why can Barcelona not act like champions and accept they lost on the night to a team that played better?

Mourinho neglected the fact that Diego Milito's goal was offside and Dani Alves was denied a clear cut penalty when he was taken down by a Wesley Sneijder scissor tackle. 

Adding insult to injury, referee Olegário Benquerença booked Alves for diving. 

The comments Mourinho made were devious because if referee Benquerença made those decisions against Inter Milan, we all know that Mourinho would pontificate about 'UEFAlona.'

José Mourinho grasped at straws to come up with another negative Barcelona comment: 

What I'm about to say is not a criticism, I'm just stating a fact: There were no ballboys in the second half, which is something typical of small teams when experiencing difficulties.

But we intended to play like men and not fall on the ground at the slightest touch.

'Small teams' also refuse to cut their grass when they're experiencing difficulties countering Barcelona's tiqui-taca football:

Barcelona had much more of the ball but there was a slowness to their play—Mourinho had ordered that the grass be left long—and a lack of clarity and fluidity, the ball moved around reduced spaces and deep areas of the pitch, accumulating bodies and passes but not opportunities.  

I guess in the eyes of Mourinho, Ángel di María doesn't play like a man. 

This comment foreshadowed José Mourinho's UEFA conspiracy theory comment: 

When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

Mourinho implied that referee Anders Frisk was persuaded by Frank Rijkaard into disadvantaging Chelsea. 

What actually happened was referee Frisk had rejected Rijkaard's requests to speak about the game. 

Mourinho didn't even witness the exchange because he learnt about it through assistant manager Steve Clarke.

The only loser in this situation was referee Frisk, who was forced to quit refereeing after receiving death threats—threats that were ignited by Mourinho's misinformation and misguided belief that Barcelona influenced Frisk's officiating.

José Mourinho lost the plot when he went on this fanatical rant: 

Why do the opponents of Barcelona always have a man sent off? Where does this power come from? Maybe it is to give more publicity to UNICEF, maybe because of the power of [Spanish federation president Jose Angel] Villar in UEFA

Why? Why? Why Øvrebø? Why Busacca? Why De Bleeckere? Why Stark? Why? Because every semi-final the same things happen. We are talking about an absolutely fantastic football team, so why do they need that? Why? Why does a team as good as they are need something [extra] that is so obvious that everyone sees it?

There's no point addressing the first quoted paragraph, so let's debunk the listed referees. 

Mourinho conveniently left out referee Olegário Benquerença because his decisions went against Barcelona. 

Mourinho's naming and shaming of referee Massimo Busacca is wrong.  By the letter of the law, he was correct in sending Robin van Persie off. 

Maybe Mourinho missed the moment when referee Busacca denied Lionel Messi a penalty after the Argentine was hacked by Abou Diaby. 

When Chelsea were up against Mourinho's Inter Milan, the Portuguese manager didn't question referee Wolfgang Stark's integrity for sending off Didier Drogba.

Moreover, Mourinho clearly forgot that referee Tom Henning Øvrebø incorrectly sent off Eric Abidal. 

Finally, Mourinho overlooked the fact that referee de Bleeckere spotted Yaya Touré’s handball, thus cancelling out what would have been a Bojan Krkić 91st minute winner.

Here's some excellent insight from Gary Neville:

I spent the first 10 years of my career being a right pain to referees.

I was always in their ear, challenging their decisions, niggling them if they had missed something earlier in the game. It was part of the football culture back then.

Then, something happened that completely changed my outlook.

The top referee of his day, Graham Poll, came to Old Trafford to meet the full United squad before the start of the season. 

He told us quite candidly that if he'd had a run-in with a player or a manager, he'd remember it in future and would be less likely to make a decision in their favour. 

You could have heard a pin drop, the silence interrupted by Teddy Sheringham blurting out in disbelief: 'You what?!'

When you think about it, it's common sense. 

Referees are human beings, and human beings are influenced by how people behave towards them or what they say.

Mourinho believes that by berating referees, they'll be pressured to make a decision in his favour, when actually the opposite is true. 

Why would a referee, who has had his or her reputation gutted by Mourinho, give the benefit of the doubt to the Portuguese manager? 

In 2005, José Mourinho unleashed this verbal barrage on Arsène Wenger:

He is one of these people who is a voyeur—he likes to watch other people.

He's worried about us, he's always talking about us—it's Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea.

I don't know if he wants my job—he loves Chelsea.

Replace "Chelsea" with "Barcelona," and Mourinho's quote is applicable to himself. 

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