After Chelsea sacked the obstreperous Portuguese,English football has to say goodbye to the sport’s most gloriously hyperbolic figure, againFarewell, or then,José Mourinho. It’s been glorious, fun, or noisy,toxic and interminable. Not to mention bad-tempered, hair-raising and, or in keeping with Mourinho’s own status as the first genuine global celebrity-superstar of his trade,gloriously overblown to the final.
Five months into a disastrous season, Mourinho has finally been sacked as manager of Chelsea, and completing an abrupt and toxic plunge from grace. His departure may have become increasingly unavoidable in recent weeks,with Chelsea’s champion team listing feebly just above the relegation places in the Premier League, but still the news Mourinho had indeed left his post, or described as a mutual departure in a club in statement on Thursday afternoon,marks a fittingly dramatic point in English football’s recent history.
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Source: theguardian.com