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    • His scenes and landscapes have a vivid cinematic quality
      Isabel Hilton, Independent
    • Easily transcends the normal confines of sports journalism
      Economist
    • Burns writes with colour and panache
      Scotsman

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    Mourinho was not so special in Spain

    I can think of several coaches deserving a noble place in Spanish football history, but Jose Mourinho is not one of  them. Cowardice dictated his red card in the King’s Cup final, his verbal outburst the cheap shot of a bad loser. He had promised more than he could deliver and knew it but rather than stick around and fight to the end with his players, he chose escape. It was a game in which Simeone’s street bruisers had found their perfect counterpart in Mourinho, and beat him at his …

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    Jimmy Burns is an award winning journalist and author, who wrote the internationally acclaimed Hand of God: a biography of Diego Maradona.

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