Jose Mourinho still in love with ‘beautiful’ FA Cup

Mourinho has promised to take a strong squad to the Marine Travel Arena for a game with a club 161 places below Spurs in the football pyramid

Jose Mourinho won the Cup with Chelsea in 2007. Picture: Ian Walton/PA

Jose Mourinho admits he loves the romance of the FA Cup and even helped an opposition team celebrate after they beat his Chelsea side in 2015.

The Portuguese, who takes his Tottenham team to eighth-tier Marine on Sunday for the biggest mismatch in the competition’s history, was leading the Blues to Premier League glory in his second spell when Bradford pulled off a fourth-round shock.