Mourinho’s second coming...

Who is Jose Mourinho, if, as he stated last summer, he is no longer The Special One? Football’s most famous epithet has come back to haunt the Portuguese coach, who announced on his return to Stamford Bridge last summer that he was now The Happy One.

Since then we have had Jose the Angry One, when he was sent to the stands against West Brom, The Paranoid One when he claimed a fixture list conspiracy against Chelsea, and most recently The Scary One, according to his Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard in an interview at the weekend.

The truth is that Mourinho is a complex character, different in many ways to the force of nature who breezed into English football almost ten years ago, full of self-fulfilling prophecies. Back then, he had the confidence — some say arrogance — of youth allied to the experience of winning the Champions League with an unfancied Porto side.