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Mark Clattenburg shares what Jose Mourinho used to do to referees during his time in the Premier League
Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur all had Jose Mourinho managing their first-team squads at various points in his career.
Mourinho’s most significant spell in the Premier League was at Chelsea, though he also managed to win silverware with Manchester United and took Tottenham to a cup final.
Mourinho has forged a reputation for himself 🍷as an outspoken mana🏅ger who’s never been afraid to stand up for himself and his team.
Now,🐻 former referee Mark Clattenburg has lifted the lid on what Mourinho was like to deal with and what he used to do to referees during his time in England.
Chelsea legend Jose Mourinho ‘charmed’ referees
Clattenburg, speaking on The Overlap, revealed the stance of several top Premier League 🐭managers when it ca🐷me to dealing with referees.
He revea𝓡led that Mourinho was the kind of manager who “charmed you” and tried to “make you feel special” – all༒ as part of “mind games”.
“You had managers that used to want to try and ♔befriend you, to make you feel special,” said Clattenburg.
“Jose, they call him the Special One, that’s what𓆏 he tried to do, he charmed you.
“It wasn’t gifts or anything like that, b💝ut it was the way that, after the games – they’d won of course – ‘oh Mark Clattenburg had a great game’, and y🦋ou’re like f—— b——-!
“But that’s… ꦰit was to⛄ make you feel good and in your head you’re like ‘oh he likes us!’.”
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Graham Poll shares numerous Jose Mourinho anecdotes
Graham Poll, another former referee who u🅷sed to be one of the Premier League’s best, also commented on how Mourinho tries to charm refe🍸rees.
Indeed, Poll wrote an article in the back in 2013 in which he shared a number of anecdot🎐es about the former Chelsea, Man United and Spurs boss.
“Jose Mourinho is Mr Charming with referees,” wrote Poll. “He is most effecti🦋ve in domestic leagues when he knows each referee perso🔯nally.
“When Mourinho first arrived at Chelsea in 2004, one 🌺of the first things he did was invite me to the training ground to introduce himself.
“He knew I was one of the leading referees in the country and, as it turned out, I ended up refereeing six Chelsea games that s📖eason.
“He was very charming and introduced 🐓me to the team as ‘the best referee in Europe’ (I had refe💧reed Porto three times and they had won every game which probably helped).
“He works with such a charm that you don’t think you’re being worked. Before the game he is🐓 lovely, too.”
Poll then shared a story in which🌞 Mourinho acted upon one of Poll’s tongue-in-cheek requests when it came to an interior design-related issue.
“I was in charge of his very first Premier League match, a 1-0 victory over Manchester Uꦚnited,” c▨ontinued Poll.
“He asked me afterwards if everything was OK for me and I flippantly replied that the♉ referee’s room needed a lick of paint to say the least!
“Five weeks later I returned. The referee’s room💟 had two new showers, complimentary toiletries and a f🐷lat-screen TV.”
However, t꧒her𓄧e were times when Mourinho wasn’t quite so charming.
“At the en🎶d of his second season, I was also in charge when Chelsea were beat✱en 2-1 in an FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool at Old Trafford,” continued Poll.
“He was less than charming in the tunnel afterwards. He stood there shaking his head at me and lookin꧂g disappointed.
“He made one comment: ‘I thought you were my friend’. You can make your own inference from that, but I chose to ignor🌳e it.”