Most of the talk before the game came from the self-appointed `Special One´. Jose Mourinho's comments included little digs, like Liverpool had only played three or four big games this season while Chelsea had played 27 - or that the Anfield men would chase Didier Drogba around all night trying to get him booked,

But by far his best comment - and the one that must make us question if he is nowadays really playing with a full deck of cards - was the ''Liverpool are only a small club'' jibe.

Now anyone on this planet who has an interest in football has heard of Liverpool FC and if they have five European Cups in their trophy room, what does that make Mourinho's team with a grand total of zero? The craziness of that comment was best summed up by Steven Gerrard after the game when he said that when the players read that statement, ''Mourinho did the team talk for us'´. Good on you, Jose - if only you could motivate your own team as well.

'Mourinho is not special; any good Sunday league manager, given the same resources, could achieve the same if not more'


It's pretty hard to be surprised by they nonsense the Special One mutters any more because his claims against not just Liverpool, but other clubs like Manchester United, have become so stupid and vicious. His personal attack on Cristiano Ronaldo, saying he is uneducated because he comes from a poor background, shows how low he has stooped. But his post-match statement that Chelsea were the better team and the only ones trying to score beggars belief, even by his crazy standards.

What game was he actually watching because it could not have been the one-sided affair at Anfield. Liverpool had three or four times the number of chances Chelsea did - and a perfectly good goal ruled offside.

I think the end is nigh for crazy Jose, for a couple of reasons. First, his Russian paymaster must be so sick of him alienating all neutral fans and making Chelsea the most hated team in the game at the moment. Remember this is a team that, before Roman's roubles arrived, had very few enemies outside of London derbies, yet in a short space of time Mourinho has turned them into probably the most hated team on the planet with his grossly stupid comments.

The second and most compelling reason was summed up by Rick Parry when he said about Chelsea: ''I guess when you've invested £500m, it's a fantastic season to win the League Cup'´. What Parry said is very true. With Chelsea`s massive investment, Roman Abramovich must be considering whether Jose the right man to spend his money and when should he stop the rot. Remember also that Gus Hiddink is still waiting in the wings.

I don't expect the Special One to be at Chelsea next year and it will be no loss for English football. He is not special; any good Sunday league manager, given the same resources, could achieve the same if not more. And  his comments, which at the start were comical, have turned vicious - as in the Ronaldo case.

However, when he said Liverpool were a small club he tried to belittle far greater men than himself; men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. He paid the price, for it, too -  how better to fire up Stevie Gerrard and Co than to say that such iconic figures were just little men from a little club?

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