Keane has learned subtle changes in art of management

Jose Mourinho and Roy Keane have a bit in common. If anyone in the party is travelling business class, it shouldn’t be the suits.

More than once when the situation arose that the Chelsea party would be split between economy and business class, Mourinho took up position in the cheap seats and let the players have the cushy numbers; he would lead from the back, not the front.

It might be a strange thing to say about a man who seemed to make the two Champions Leagues he won seem all about him, but even the most confident had a humility about him.

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