Jose Mourinho Is Back On Top
The Lead
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tottenham takes on Liverpool today in a matchup of the top two teams in the Premier League. For Spurs coach Jose Mourinho, this season's success has been a welcome return to the spotlight, after several years of failure (and falling outs) at Manchester United and Chelsea. The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke joins us to talk about Mourinho's remarkable coaching journey, why he and Tottenham are now clicking, and what continued success will mean for his reputation -- and the sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:06.0 | A year ago, Josie Moreno had been all but written off by a lot of people. But now, Moreno and Tottenham are back. |
| 0:20.0 | Kane! Oh, we have on the underside of the crossbar Harry Kane from Huffman Son, those two strike yet again. And Tottenham are heading back to the top of the Premier League. |
| 0:35.0 | Today, the athletic Jack Pitbrook on why the Portuguese coach is clicking so well with his new team and what continued success would mean for his reputation. |
| 0:44.0 | It will certainly show that lots of takes over the course of the last five years about Moreno were wrong, that he was a dinosaur that he wasn't suited to modern football. |
| 0:54.0 | You know, I have tweeted a lot of those things and have written a lot of those pieces in the past. And I feel like I am in the process of being proven wrong. |
| 1:02.0 | From Wondory on the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm under Skelto. It's Wednesday, December 16th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:10.0 | If you tell the truth, people will fall in love with us. But you have to say the truth. |
| 1:15.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:19.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the game. |
| 1:23.0 | No, the verse from the verse. |
| 1:24.0 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:27.0 | Are you okay? I am safe. You know anything like that? |
| 1:29.0 | That's not good news. |
| 1:30.0 | This isn't a story where the interview of the athlete will hold. It stays with you. |
| 1:36.0 | So Jack, first, can you just remind us how Jose Mourinho built his reputation as a coach? |
| 1:45.0 | I think Jose Mourinho built his reputation as a coach because when he came into the game, |
| 1:51.0 | he had to start the 2000s. He was so different from what already existed out there. |
| 1:57.0 | Jose Mourinho's side hold on. And they win the UEFA Cup. |
| 2:02.0 | Mourinho showed up, started winning stuff at Porto in 2002-3 and then most famously of all |
| 2:07.0 | won the 2004 Champions League. |
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