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Jose Marino

one of the world's greatest football coaches

and perhaps football management's foremost professional nuisance.

Marino's barbs have pricked many peers

throughout the years and today I'm joined by Paul Ansorge

to take a more in-depth look

at the man and the character. I suppose the first question is, and this comes from a lot of

commenters to why did you decide to leave Pep Guardiola out of the video? That's an extremely

valid question. I think what happened was because this season, everything's been so quiet on the

pep front, there should have been a line in the video where I said, obviously, pep guadiola is

like the biggest one of these, but it's been covered elsewhere because that was my thinking

in leaving him out. So yeah, that's kind of just an oversight not to mention that.

Because the other thing is it's, I wrote a companion piece for the website for UMax

it about how the Marino, neither the Marino Wanga rivalry nor the Marino Guadioola rivalry

has really caught fire this season so it hasn't

kind of been at the forefront of what's been happening the guadiole thing which i think is it's kind

of an interesting subject and i suspect it's because both managers have been so occupied with

their own issues and marino said right at the start of the season mean i'm, in Spain, we just had each other to focus on, but here the focus has to be a lot wider, so you can't get drawn into those personal battles to the same extent. Although, I'm not sure that's always stopped him in the past. But yeah, I think because the two of them have been so occupied with other things, they haven't really had those fights.

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