Playing the Officials
I was astonished when I got to see the sending off of Pepe in the Barca-Real match. If that was a foul then footballers won't be going in for 50-50 balls any more for fear of getting a red card. An incredibly bad decision. They both wnet for the ball, Pepe got it an some of the Barca player's foot who went down like he'd been shot. Not even a foul. Too bad to be legit, in fact. Even at an amateur level regular refs know what's going on. There's no way the ref didn't give the red to tilt to Barca.
Fearing this sort of shenanigans must of been why the Special One made such a deal of the choice of match official.
However, it's not over yet. EUFA is now on notice via Mourinho's considerable media machinery that it's credibility is on the line. Prediction: M will tell his guys to get into the box early and they'll get a penalty. Even stephen, kind of. How it goes from there I don't know but you heard it here first.