Mourinho: Magic click beyond me

Jose Mourinho knew it would take more than a flick of a switch to turn Chelsea into serial winners.

The self-proclaimed ‘Special One’ believes the task which faces him at Chelsea is harder than it was during his first spell, when he won two Premier League titles, and that winning the 2012 Champions League and 2013 Europa League merely papered over the cracks of an inconsistent team with a mental fragility.

Despite some impressive one-off results, the Blues finished sixth in the 2011/12 season — 25 points behind champions Manchester City — and third last term, 14 points adrift of Manchester United.