Never has football seen such an intriguing figure: a man who, psychologically and paradoxically, represents much more than the somewhat lazy, marmite notion of love or hate. This book aims to differentiate Jose Mourinho's undoubted achievements as The Special One from his unsavoury controversies as El Gillipollas (the asshole). José Mourinho is a self-made and self-driven tactical innovator, who, even more so than Arsène Wenger, emerged from relative obscurity and a lack of public notoriety to become football's first acclaimed postmodern manager In just 12 years of management, Mourinho won seven league titles, two Champions Leagues, one UEFA Cup and six domestic cups, and, in 2010, became the first ever FIFA Ballon d'Or coaching award winner. With a career filled with moral nadirs, from the Anders Frisk incident in 2005 to his absurd eye-gouge of Tito 'Pito' Villanova in 2011, Mourinho has stopped at nothing to become one of sport's most controversial figures of the 21st century.