Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has hit back at Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas and has asked the Portuguese-man to show him some respect, especially after all he taught him.
The Spurs boss has been very public about the relationship the two of them share due to their days together at Porto and Chelsea (for Mourinho’s first spell) and has even revealed that the two of them do not talk anymore.
Villas-Boas said he left Mourinho’s coaching staff because he wanted to show more ambition on his own and this morning, before the two teams go head-to-head at White Hart Lane, Mourinho has hit back at Boas and told him to show some respect.
‘I’m not a kid – if I have something to discuss then we go upstairs, we have lunch and we speak about it,’ Mourinho claimed.
‘When people know me they can be very straight and very objective, but people shouldn’t be wary of me because of my ugly face.
‘It’s a personal thing and I don’t care about what he says. I’m not interested. I would say 90 per cent of the people who speak about me don’t know me. The people who know me – their opinion is respectful. If they shoot for a positive or negative, they should make it public.
‘The managers I don’t know have no credibility. If there is a reason I don’t like another manager I prefer not to say, but it’s a question of personality.’
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt
