We explore what makes Jose Mourinho football’s greatest enigma, and dive deep into everything that made him a man with distinct knack for the dark arts.
An introduction from the editor: Jose Mourinho was born in the year John F. Kennedy had his mind relocated. The world has its mind relocated too, but not quite as literally.
The instigator of the moon landing, President Kennedy, started a major scientific and literary obsession of the time. Early Portuguese and particularly, Italian literature are full of descriptions of the Earth’s satellite. From Dante to Ariosto, Galileo and Leopardi, waxing lyrically about the celestial. The finest of them, Italo Calvino was fascinated by the Moon and had offered a highly evocative description of its effects in ‘Moon and Gnac’.