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JOSE MOURINHO – THE TAXI DRIVER

VASTLY-EXPERIENCED JOURNALIST JOHN WRAGG RECALLS AN UNUSUAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE ‘SPECIAL ONE’…

LOOKING BACK
YOU don’t get a better closeup view of Jose Mourinho than him being your taxi driver for over an hour.
It was back when Bobby Robson was managing Porto and Mourinho was his assistant, not even his No2 really, mostly an interpreter.
I was in Porto to interview Robson about his impending move to Barcelona. I’d broken the story in the Daily Express a week before, speaking to Bobby as he was travelling back to Portugal from a meeting with Barca president Jose...

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