The Jose delusion

AS a little break from from the lofty intellectual challenges presented by the Lampard, Gerrard and Cole biographies — surely all worthy candidates for the Boy Booker prize — your correspondent is slumming it this week with scientist Richard Dawkins’ brilliant new defence of atheism, ‘The God Delusion’.

Of course, I only picked it up in the first place because I thought it was a critical biography of Jose Mourinho. Not so. But I suspect that even Dawkins’ compelling and convincing argument for the non-existence of God would do little to undermine Jose’s fervent belief in what he clearly regards as the ultimate authority — himself.

At a Stamford Bridge press conference on Tuesday, Mourinho left no-one in any doubt that the opinions of others made no difference, one way or another, to his conviction that Reading’s Stephen Hunt and deliberately set out to injure Petr Cech in the ugly collision which left the Chelsea keeper with a skull fracture that will keep him out of the game for months.