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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,277-1594390,00.html
Shirty Mourinho inspires revival (摘錄)
By Matt Dickinson
May 02, 2005
The Portuguese manager's message was not delivered via a Powerpoint
presentation or one of the tactical dossiers favoured by this most modern of
managers but a good old-fashioned telling off. “I'll go out there,” he told
his players. “I can do better.”
"He was fuming,” John Terry said. “He was going, ‘Listen, give me the
shirt, give Steve Clarke (the assistant manager) the shirt,’ and they would go
out and work harder than we had done. Sometimes you aren't going to play well
(but it doesn't matter) as long as you give 100 per cent, but we didn't.
Bolton were the first to headers, the first to tackles. Jose said he would put
himself out there and do a lot better than we were doing. He told us to get out
there and show how much we wanted to win the title. And we did.”
Forty-five minutes later, the dressing-room was awash with champagne and
adrenalin. “I'm buzzing, I'm on top of the world,” Joe Cole said. The
midfield player was certainly on top of the team bus, having clambered up
through the hatch to stand on the roof and squirt water over a sea of beaming
faces.
The Russian billionaire was showered with champagne in the dressing-room
before taking a congratulatory telephone call from Gianfranco Zola, the former
Chelsea maestro, but far from overshadowing his players, the Russian has been
shoved into the background by the excellence of his highly paid employees.
Terry will receive the trophy after next Saturday's home game against Charlton
Athletic as well as the medal to add to his collection of every shirt and
captain's armband from the campaign. “I certainly hope we can dominate
English football,” he said. “We have got the squad, a young side that wants
to win and do things together.
"It feels very emotional. I just want to break down and I probably will when
I get back to my hotel room on my own, when I sit back and watch it on TV. It
will mean an awful lot to my family and friends but more importantly it will
mean a lot to my players, to the people I train and work with every day and
every week. We have made a lot of sacrifices and it's paid off on the pitch.”
"There have been some harsh words spoken about us not being entertaining and
that the best two teams in the Premiership are in the final of the FA Cup,
but the best team wins the league and we have done that,”Lampard said. "You
look at Arsenal, who have drawn at Bolton, and Man United, who have lost. We
have come and won so the others should take a look. We know that we are
definitely the best.
"After all the emotion of the season, to finally win it is such a release.
Now we're going to Anfield as champions. And if that doesn't fill you with
confidence nothing will.”
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