Mourinho brings shame on the game

WHEN Vince Lombardi was strutting his stuff as the most successful coach in American football history he gave the sports world some of its pithiest phrases.

Among the most famous: "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." Little was Lombardi to know that a Portuguese egotist, a French philosopher, a Scottish bully and a portly Spaniard would take him quite so literally.

But that's what we have at the top, or in Arsenal's case close to halfway, of the Premiership four men in Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez, yes even mild-mannered, level-headed Benitez, who seemingly would rubbish any linesman or slate any referee to win a football match.