Jose Mourinho: ‘I am not the Godfather’

Jose Mourinho had seemingly heard enough, even though he hadn’t come anywhere close to saying enough.

About four minutes into the daily newspaper section of his Friday press conference ahead of Sunday’s game against Manchester City, and after unsuccessfully attempting to kill discussion of the Eva Carneiro and Jon Fearn story by insisting he would take no questions after what was a rather fudged general statement on the matter, the Chelsea manager became so irritated with repeated pressing on the issue that he got up and went to walk out of the room.

Mourinho was talked into sitting back down by the club’s Head of Communications, but he still wasn’t standing up to questions well. This was actually a rarely-seen Mourinho. Normally so comfortable at controlling such stories, he was this time struggling to stay coherent as he scrabbled for responses.