The Portuguese has instructed his players to dominate but will always rein them in against top teams because he is “not a fundamentalist in football” – and nor should he be

As Jon Obi Mikel trotted out onto the Old Trafford pitch in place of Oscar, 67 minutes into Chelsea’s tense and physical battle against Manchester United on Sunday and with only Didier Drogba’s near-post header separating the teams, one Jose Mourinho quote in particular sprang to mind.

It came from November 2010, when Diego Maradona visited Real Madrid’s Valdebebas training complex. The story is recounted in Diego Torres’ book ‘The Special One: The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho’. Explaining the guiding principle of his philosophy to the Argentina legend, Mourinho stated: “I score and I win. And another thing – you score and you don’t know if you win!”

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