01x01 - Episode 1

[bunniefuu]

[poignant instrumental music playing]

[Mourinho] I was born in football.

I live in football every day of my life.

Without football,
there is not something complete

in… in place for me.

When I walk from the dressing room
to the pitch…

it's the last moment where, uh,
I think about the people that I love.

After that…

[whistle blows]

…I'm in another world.

[crowd cheering]

It's a hell of an experience.

[commentator] Ronaldo!

[man 1] He's obsessed with the game.
The game is his life.

Football, that is what comes
in my mind fast.

The be all and end all in José's world,
I always felt, was to win.

You have him, you're gonna win.

He's won the league in England.
He's won in Italy.

He's won the league in Portugal and Spain.

Are there any countries left?

He's A-list, isn't he?

[in Spanish] A great personality.
A strong personality.

[in English] You want me to describe
as a person? Boring.

-[in Spanish] Calculating.
-[chuckles]

[in English] Warm.

Grumpy.

-Unique.
-Good-looking.

-Bad loser.
-Funny.

Just put a mic on him

and roll the camera. [laughs]

[man 2] Firstly, I think you've won
because he's allowed you

to be around him consistently.

[laughs]

[commentator] It's McCarthy.
A good save by Howard.

It's been turned in by Costinha!

[crowd cheering]

[Mourinho] When you touch the sky,

you want to stay there forever.

-[producer] What does it feel like to win?
-Feels like to win? Normality.

That's what I did all life.

Fundamentally, I need to feel

that I'm loved.

Now it starts the difficult part, right?
So… [laughs] …we had the good times.

But then we had, uh,
also some really hard and bad times.

To him, winning was all-important.
I mean, it was virtually at all costs.

[man 3] He can't pretend to believe that
any club he works is bigger than he is.

[man 4] He's a dinosaur of a coach.

[man 5] He's a disgrace.

Some respect, man. Respect, respect.

[reporter 1] Any regrets
about the language?

[reporter 2] He does have
a quite extraordinary ego.

Yeah, and a God complex.

[reporter 3] Did you see him becoming
the great manager he is today?

No.

I hope with this documentary
that he says his story the way it was.

Because… everything is not with flowers.

[man 6] He never, ever blames himself.

[Mourinho] I'm not judged
the same way as others.

Why?

Maybe it's my fault. Maybe it's my fault.

[music intensifies]

[music ends]

[church bell rings]

[quirky music playing]

Welcome to my little box.

This is my history.

I have things in here that mean a lot.

I have Maradona boots dedicated to me.

This is Diego.

[chuckles]

This is Cristiano Ronaldo
in his first season

as a professional in Sporting.

This is for me to realize
that I'm… I'm 60. Or I was.

-What's that?
-[producer] Bottom left.

[Mourinho] In here? It's me!

You know, some guy did this… awful José.

No, it's not bad. It's not bad.

I started winning in, uh, 2003.

And my last title was 2022.

So it was 20 years winning.

That's why you… you want to tell my story.

You don't do a documentary
with a guy that wins nothing.

No, it's not like I come here
and I think I am… I am special.

[laughs]

The Special One is some special sh*t,

some guys in England
they… they found for me.

[producer] I love you're saying that

whilst there's a mural of yourself
behind you.

[dramatic music playing]

[cameras clicking]

[man 1] Thank you, good morning.
Welcome to Stamford Bridge.

I'm delighted this morning
to formally announce José Mourinho

as the new manager and coach of Chelsea

with immediate effect.

[reporter 1] Why Chelsea,
of all the places you could've gone?

Why Chelsea?

Chelsea was the perfect club.
They want to win like I want to win.

We have to work
with big things in our minds.

But please don't call me arrogant
because what I'm saying is true.

I'm European champion,

so I'm not one of… of the bottle.

I think I'm a special one.

[man 2] When he named himself
the Special One,

as players already at the club,
we were sitting there like,

"Oh, wow, who's this?
We're in trouble here."

At the same time,
when a manager does those things,

you go, "I'm with that.
This is different, but I like it."

But for people in Britain, it's like,
"You can't call yourself the Special One."

"That's not how we do things here."

{\an8}If you're watching, you think,
"Bloody hell, what is he talking about?"

{\an8}Jesus God, he's not even played
any games yet,

and he says, "I'm the Special One."

I know that I am.

And I said, I am a special one,
not the Special One.

But they were asking me

if I was good enough
to come to the Premier League.

[reporter 2] You might struggle
in the Premiership

because the Portuguese league was easier.

[Mourinho] I was not happy
with that noise.

I always thought
my passport to England was…

a Champions League victory

with Porto the week before
I arrived at Chelsea.

[commentator]
Porto are the Champions League winners.

[music fades]

[Mourinho] But it's been like that
all my life.

[poignant music playing]

I always felt I had to prove myself.

I come from a small country.

I was not
a successful football player before.

It was a period
where the majority of the coaches

were former very good players.

So to get into a world
that was controlled and dominated

and was a closed circle

was very hard.

I had to fight that battle
and prove that I was different.

I wanted to make history.
And nothing was going to stop me.

[music fades]

[man 1] When I joined Chelsea,

{\an8}it was a pretty unique period.

{\an8}So we got Roman, the owner,

{\an8}who was the first really wealthy guy
to come into English football.

He now has more pure cash
than anyone in the world.

His wealth is now greater
than the yearly product of 158 countries.

[Kenyon] And he wanted to make Chelsea
the best club in Europe.

So we started to look at getting a coach

who could really bring success.

[photographer] José! José!

[Mourinho] The objective was…
was very clear.

Win the Premier League.

[determined music playing]

The biggest rivals was
a team of invincibles.

[commentator 1] History has been made.

Arsenal have gone through
an entire league campaign

without losing.

Then I was going against the biggest club
in England, Manchester United.

[commentator 2] Manchester United
are champions of England

for the eighth time in eleven seasons.

[producer] And Chelsea at this time had…

Zero Premier Leagues.

So we had to fight against the ghosts.

And the ghosts were,
Chelsea's never going to win.

[man 2] He's gonna need time,
like his team,

to get to the culture of our English game.

It is a different league.
This is a tough league in which to manage.

I was thinking about, this is Arsenal,
and this is Manchester United.

We have to be different than them.

So I wanted players that could give
Chelsea a different football idea.

I liked some of the Chelsea players.
A lot.

Obviously, John Terry, Frank Lampard,

players with an incredible potential,

but just needed the last… push.

And I knew that we had the financial power
to attack the market.

So I started to build the puzzle.

[reporter 1] Unveiled today, three players
who cost a combined £24 million.

[Mourinho] We signed Arjen Robben
and Petr Čech.

Amazing goalkeeper.

{\an8}He said, "Everybody starts
from the same starting line."

{\an8}"It's up to you how well you do."

{\an8}That was pretty much all I wanted to hear.

[Mourinho] Then I did bring
two players from Portugal.

Paulo Ferreira and Ricardo Carvalho.

Thanks, and welcome to Chelsea.

{\an8}Most of the players playing for José,
they want to go with him.

[man, in Portuguese]
When the official news broke

that Mourinho was going to Chelsea,

I remember perfectly,
I called my wife and said,

"Maria, start packing.
We're moving to London."

[in English] But I also wanted
some physical profiles.

[reporter 2] Didier Drogba's a Chelsea man

after putting pen to paper
on a £24 million move from Marseille.

[Drogba] The most important reason
I joined Chelsea was meeting José.

He told me, "If you want to be
the king of Marseille, you can stay there,

but if you want to compete
and become the best in Europe,

come and play for me."

[Mourinho] I spoke to Mr. Roman
about transfers.

I was saying,
"Look, that's my first option,

but I have here my second option,

my third option, my fourth, and my fifth."

He used to say, "You think about football.
I think about money."

"Your first option is my first option."

[reporter 3] Chelsea spends £82.5 million,

more than the nearest three put together,

Arsenal, Manchester United, and Liverpool.

[Kenyon] There was real pressure
from day one,

but because we spent a lot of money,
there was even more pressure on us.

[reporter 4] Are you aware
some sections of the press

are hoping and waiting for you to fail?

We wanted to demonstrate
it isn't just about the money.

The world's full of people
who've spent and not been successful.

[determined music ends]

[Lampard] A few days
before the start of the season,

we go into the shower,
and I end up on my own in the shower

and José walks in.

He turned to me and said,

"You are the best player in the world."

I was like, "Oh,"

certainly not agreeing with it,
but I was like, "Well, thanks, boss."

-[solemn music playing]
-He said, "You are the best player."

"But you can't be yet
because you haven't got titles."

"Until you win titles,
that won't be the case."

I don't think he thought I was
the best player because I wasn't.

But what he did was boosted me up.

I was like, "Best player in the world.
José Mourinho thinks so."

He gave me a challenge.

"You better win some titles."

One of the biggest effects on my life,
a conversation in the shower.

That shows you the power
of good man management, I guess.

Yeah, I wasn't as fortunate as Frank
to have him in the shower. [laughs]

But he said, "Listen, you're my captain."

I just remember sitting there
as a 24, 25-year-old, going,

"Wow, the manager believes in me."
That's all I needed to hear.

There was a picture
of the Premier League up.

There was a very clear mindset of,
this is what we're going to win.

From those first team meetings
to the very first game against Man United,

the words and the terminology
he would use in those meetings…

"We're gonna f*ck them.
We're gonna win the league."

"We're gonna take the trophy off of them."

We cannot lose.

We cannot lose.

He made me… wanna fight for him.

We were an army.

We were going to battle.

[reporter] Expectations could not be
any higher at Stamford Bridge.

Having dabbled in his own version
of fantasy football,

it's time for Mourinho
to play the real thing,

starting against Sir Alex Ferguson's side.

Premier League is a tough league,
make no mistake about it.

It's the hardest league in the world,
no question about that.

So I was thinking,

"Let's see what he can do."

[tense music playing]

[commentator 1] The arrival of a new,
high-profile coach

has provoked
quite unprecedented excitement

among Chelsea fans and their owner.

[Mourinho] When I'm there
on the touchline,

I feel in my… in my world.

In our head has been our tackling.
We're first to everything, eh?

[Mourinho] As a coach,
the best tool in football is

your eyes.

There is no information
like your eyes can give to you.

-[whistle blows]
-[crowd cheering]

I look, you look.

I see more than you.

[Terry] He just had that…
that calmness about him

because the level of detail about the
opposition and how we was gonna beat 'em.

[commentator 1] On the way again here,
but Drogba's effort is wild.

[Mourinho] Our philosophy was based
on very simple principles,

a replica of my personality.

You give your maximum.
You stand by your teammate.

Lose without a fight?

I can maybe count on my fingers

my teams in 20 years
losing without a fight.

[commentator 1] Oof. John Terry
wasn't gonna let that run out of play.

-[commentator 2] "Have that."
-[commentator 1 laughs]

He's upset a few people with what
they perceive to be an arrogant approach,

but he seems to know
what he's talking about.

[determined music playing]

Not a bad ball either.
Drogba's header for Gudjohnsen.

Brilliant!

-[crowd cheering]
-Chelsea have scored.

One of the old faces has given them
the lead against Manchester United.

Mourinho has arrived,
and he's arrived in style.

[final whistle blows]

And there is the final whistle
at Stamford Bridge.

[reporter] Manager has the belief.

Is the belief in the dressing room
that this is the year?

Definitely. Um, all preseason,
he's been installing it in us.

[Mourinho] Everybody's celebrating.

I have a pen and a pad.

And I already start thinking
about the next game.

With me, there was no training session

without doing what you do
on Saturdays and Sundays.

I remember a coach in Porto.

His philosophy was
if you don't touch the ball,

you will arrive to the match
with ball desire.

You will be angry of ball.

Of course, he was sacked.

It was short exercises,
a lot of intensity.

The goal was to exceed the intensity
of the game on the weekend.

[Terry] Playing against Didier
every day in training

was worse than playing
in half my league games.

So when it got to the weekend,

it was like, "This is fairly easy."
Like nothing could happen.

[commentator] Cole, deflection, and in.

[Terry] Whoever we play against,
we're gonna win the game.

[commentator] Two wins, two clean sheets.
A taste of things to come.

Uh, André,
he's my eyes all over the world.

[André] He was very keen
on game preparation.

{\an8}I think that was the breakthrough
in terms of match analysis.

{\an8}Not a lot of people were doing it
at the extent

that we were doing at the time.

It was the old times of the DVD players.

[laughs] And sometimes,
the DVD player didn't work,

and José used to destroy
all the projector or the DVD player.

[Terry] I remember
we were due to play Bolton.

And up on the screen is Bolton's
training session from the day before.

And Big Sam's like, "Hit Gallas.
He's not very good in the air."

And he's spitting on the mic.

And it was just like, wow,

who gets footage
from someone's training ground?

I'm still not sure
where he got the footage.

[commentator] Tiago, made himself a yard.

Great finish. That is a top strike.

Here comes Lampard.

Lampard against Niemi to make it 2-1.

And he's done it, very coolly indeed.

[Čech] Training was top-level.

The way he managed
the group was top-level.

Then you go, "Yeah, fine.
This is why he's confident."

[Mourinho] Strong guys,
I make them stronger.

sh*t people, they are in trouble.

[Lampard] He didn't have to say anything
to make you aware

you could get on the wrong side of him.

The way he carried himself
made you feel that.

And he could be brutal.

"If you're not gonna go my way
and have the dedication that I demand,

I'll call you out in front of everybody,"
and that was harsh.

[man] Give it to me.
Give it. Go on, give it.

[Terry] Physically,
you had to be very robust.

You need to make sure
you're available for him.

And If not,
he would completely ignore you.

I've been in the treatment room
where physios tell me

I'm gonna be out for weeks.
I've got a little strain in my ankle.

And he comes in,

goes around the whole, uh, physio room,

high-fiving everyone, cuddles,

and gets to me and walks out.

I'm like, "Oh sh*t, I've upset him."

No, no,
it's just because I'm not training.

I'm like to the physio, "Inject me.
Strap me up. I'm going to train."

He's like, "You're mad."

I go out and train.

You just get a little seal of approval
of a nod of going,

"Yeah, that's the type of player I want."

If it's a pain you cannot cope, inject.

[Čech] I played with broken shoulders,
and he said,

"Come on, you're still better
than every goalkeeper in the league

with broken shoulders. Carry on."

I'm like, "Okay, I'll do that."

[fans' shouting echoing]

[Terry] For him, I would give everything.

I would leave that pitch
in a coffin for him.

I've never seen a group of individuals
follow one person

like we did him.

{\an8}[commentator] It comes to Lampard.

{\an8}Drogba! Wonderfully worked.

{\an8}[Čech] Most of the games,
we would win 1-0,

{\an8}but his thinking was, "Win, win, win."

{\an8}"Don't worry about anything else.
Just go in and win."

{\an8}We were so difficult to break
that you scored 1-0,

{\an8}and you almost feel like, "Job done."

[commentator] Chelsea one, Liverpool nil.

It's beginning to sound
like a familiar scoreline.

It was spoken a lot about at the time,
about parking the bus and all of that.

[Lampard] We didn't care as players.

We didn't care at all.
José certainly didn't, so why should we?

[Mourinho] You have to score one more goal
than the opponent.

You score, don't concede, you win it.

[reporter] Nine games, two goals conceded.

Pretty good.

Yeah, it's very good. [laughs]

Many teams,
they're thinking we are arrogant.

No, it's not about arrogance.

We want to win.

One-zero, we don't care.

[commentator] Can they convert any?
Looking promising.

Cole looks for Gudjohnsen.

-[crowd cheering]
-One-nil.

[man] I've got three things written down.

c*ck,

arrogant, but more importantly, confident.

And that's the way
his team has played all season.

December period, we played, like, 19th…

[commentator 1] Lampard!

-…26th…
-[commentator 2] Damian Duff!

-…29th.
-[commentator 3] Robben!

We had a lot of games,
and everybody was saying,

"Okay, now we will see if they crumble."

-[commentator 4] And hit low, and in!
-[commentator 5] Yes!

We won all of those games.

[Mourinho sighs]

[reporter] Could you have asked for more
from your players over the festive season?

No, I just asked them
to be clever tonight.

Managers, I think, compared to José,

generally would stick to a bit of a line.

-They're a very good team.
-They're a good team.

They're a very, very good team.

-It's gonna be a tough game.
-It's a huge task.

Mammoth task for us, but we're gonna go
all-out to try and get it.

[Mourinho] And I was different
in every way.

In the supermarket, you have eggs,
class 1, class 2, class 3.

Some are more expensive than others.

-And some… give you better omelets.
-[reporters laughing]

He was a new breed of coach
that England had not seen.

[suave lounge music playing]

He was probably the only manager
with that kind of A-list celebrity

away from football.

{\an8}[Mourinho] My life is about
keeping one step ahead.

{\an8}That's why my card is American Express.

He transcended just being a coach,
his personality.

You know, his coat,
the gray coats he wore, became legendary,

became sort of… almost fashion statements.

[man] No one failed to notice
he's a very attractive man

of a certain age.

{\an8}He's brooding, um,

{\an8}uh, and that kind of casual insouciance
that he has really works.

I am unapologetically and shamelessly
besotted by the man, actually.

I can look at the back page
of the newspapers for the first time.

I can bear to look
at the touchline in football.

I can bear to look
at a football match, full stop.

We'd become
this kind of worldwide attention

because of him, which was quite new.

[reporter] José, which is more handsome,
you or the waxwork?

I do an advertise, I sell.

Somebody makes a comment about me,
they sell themselves.

I sell. That's as simple as that.

You want to know my team tomorrow?

So why don't you ask me?

-[reporter] What's your team tomorrow?
-It's too late. I'm sorry.

[laughs]

Full of those things,
press conference, calling someone out,

full of things we're not used to
in the Premier League.

They'd say,
"Are you feeling the pressure?"

"Chelsea is going to collapse?" No.
I'm more worried with the bird's flu.

I'm serious.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure
with the swan in Scotland.

-[reporters laugh]
-I'm serious.

You are laughing, but I'm serious.
It's… It's not far.

A player watch on TV,

a player laughs… laughs immediately

and embrace the feeling,
"Oh, he's not worried."

[crowd cheering and whistling]

[commentator] Chelsea have plenty forward.

Gudjohnsen through the middle.
Robben on the ball, and he scores!

{\an8}Well, how on earth has that crept in?

[whistle blows]

And they've won the game.

Doesn't José Mourinho just love that?

They are now 16 games without defeat.

Eleven points clear of the nearest chaser.

"Show them the badge," says the manager.

"We are Chelsea,
and we are going all the way."

Morning.

[Mourinho] But in the end of February,
things start changing.

We lost FA Cup in Newcastle

before we go to Barcelona.

[commentator] By a remarkable coincidence,
the referee, Anders Frisk,

is the same
as when Chelsea last played here

almost five years ago and lost 5-1.

The hope is that's not a bad omen.

[Mourinho] That night in the first leg,
we are winning 1-0.

[crowd cheering]

[Mourinho] And then at half-time
in that mixed area,

close to the referee's dressing room…

[hesitates] …everything happened.

[foreboding music playing]

I saw the referee go to his dressing room.

And then I saw the opposition coach
kicking… kicking the door.

I saw a big noise around… around that.

And then in the second half,
the game changed.

-[dramatic music playing]
-[whistle blows]

[crowd shouting]

[Mourinho] And after that,

we lost.

[dramatic music continues]

[reporter 1] There's confusion here.

I was in the tunnel
as the teams were going back out.

José Mourinho seemed to be chasing
after Anders Frisk saying,

"You cannot do that. I'll report you."

[reporter 2] José Mourinho claimed

referee Anders Frisk
and Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard

met at half-time.

Mourinho spoke with the fourth official,
clearly far from happy with events.

[Rijkaard] It isn't true.

People are creating these rumors.

I saw it.

I had to say.

This is bigger
than the feeling of injustice.

I was criticized in the media
for these, uh… for these words,

but it was the way I… the way I felt.

He got away with these things
when he was successful on the pitch.

If you try to do that
when you're not successful on the pitch,

that's where you get k*lled.

This is all
build-you-up-to-knock-you-down approach.

With José, there is definitely an element
where he's always mischievous.

You never know what you're gonna get.
And most people can't deal with it.

International football referee
Anders Frisk has retired

after receiving death threats.

He was in charge of
the contentious Champions League match

between Barcelona and Chelsea.

The Swedish official has received
threats on the phone,

via email, and in the post.

People say I spoke too much
after that match, but I would do it again.

That's the way. So I'm not nice.

I'm not nice.

Just the way it is.

[producer] How does it feel to say that,
that you're not nice?

I feel with pride.

I do it… I do it in a pride…

in a pride way.

Anything to help your team
to… to get results.

[Terry] A few days after that,
we had a League Cup final.

{\an8}It increases the pressure
on the Carling Cup final tomorrow

for Chelsea, for Mourinho?

It's a big test
because they lost the FA Cup.

They lost on Wednesday night.
They can lose again tomorrow.

Would easily lose again
because Liverpool are on form.

[reporter] Some newspapers are saying
the honeymoon will be over

if you don't beat them on Sunday.

Which honeymoon?

[reporter] Well…

-Honeymoon?
-[reporter] Yeah.

-What you mean?
-The good times may be over at Chelsea.

Honeymoon, for me, is… is 20 years
of honeymoon with my wife.

No other honeymoons.

And to be fair,

the day when the club
is not happy with me,

the next day I go.

So don't try to put pressure on me
because I'm not under pressure never.

Never. My life is easy.

I don't like to go against the system.
It's not something that gives me pleasure.

It's just the way I am,

and it's just the way
I think it should be.

Do we sense over the last 14 days or so
that there isn't maybe the same swagger,

that he has said things
he wished he hadn't?

{\an8}He says it how he sees it.

Unfortunately, I think it's got
to the stage in the country

where there's a lot of people hoping
he falls flat on his face.

[commentator 1] Riise, with room,
has been calling for it long and hard.

And hits a magnificent opening
inside 45 seconds.

John Arne Riise hits a rocket.

[suspenseful music playing]

[commentator 2] Where do you go
if you're Mourinho?

[commentator 1] Steven Gerrard,
the Liverpool captain, sees it flick in.

Remarkably,
Chelsea have got their equalizer

from a most unlikely source.

[crowd singing and whistling]

It is extra time

after an extraordinary start
and finish to the 90 minutes.

Johnson's long throw,
and it's gone through to Drogba!

[crowd cheering]

Chelsea win their first silverware
under José Mourinho,

in a remarkable,
roller-coaster Carling Cup final.

[Mourinho] We knew that
nobody wanted us to win.

We were the team of the foreign owner.

We were the team of the billionaire,

of "money buys titles."

We were not a nice team
in the eyes of the establishment.

We were not at all.

The English press, they speak too much.

You try to do everything
to disturb Chelsea

and to try to take some confidence from us
and put some pressure on us.

On top of it,

I was seen as arrogant
by word, by communication,

and I was arrogant
by the nature of my work.

We have the first title.

And almost for sure,
we will have the second one.

The second one will be the big one.

[reporter] You sound as though
you're feeling the pressure.

I'm not feeling the pressure, no.
You cannot put pressure on me. No chance.

No chance. I, I… I read a lot of times
during this week

that I have to prove a lot
in English football.

[inhales sharply]

[exhales]

Sir Alex is the only one
European champion in this country.

Nobody else. So I have to prove what?

-[reporter] Congratulations.
-Thanks a lot.

[Mourinho] So this Chelsea manager,

who wants him to win?

Nobody.

[Lampard] He became
the "enemy of football".

And it created
this kind of "them against us."

But what José sold to us was
that he was doing that,

and there was
a real genuine, um, plan behind it.

"When I'm doing that, you chill, be ready,

'cause tonight, you're gonna go out
and do this or that."

[announcer] Please welcome
FC Barcelona and Chelsea.

[commentator] Stamford Bridge stages
a European match for the 50th time.

More has been said
and written about this one

than the other 49 put together.

[determined music playing]

[Mourinho] I don't run away
from controversy.

And I try to use it when I feel
that can be positive for my side.

I feel like in the old-time families,

where there was always a grandfather
that was the protection,

was the strong arm.

And many, many times,

I paid for that in terms of my image,

but I never thought
about the consequences for me.

There's no football player
who don't love that.

The manager is protecting you,
so you don't think twice.

You just go for it, and most of the time,
the result is positive.

[commentator] He's turned Belletti.
Chelsea lead!

[Lampard] The second leg
against Barcelona…

[commentator] Lampard has scored!

[Lampard] …we beat them 4-2 at home.

{\an8}[commentator] Goalkeeper drawn.

The credit will go
to all these talented players

helping each other getting results,
but he was the leader.

[commentator] In towards John Terry.
It's there!

[Lampard] There's no doubt,
no matter the talent we had in that squad,

he was the defining factor in changing us

from a group of nearlys
and wanting-to-be winners

to winners.

[dramatic string flourish plays]

[music ends]

With José,
there's the character you see on TV,

and there's the José
on the training ground.

-[tender music playing]
-[man] Come on. Come on. It's cold.

[Drogba] And his strength is
that he's managed to create

a relationship with each one of us.

[Mourinho] Come back.

[Terry] He's got a soft side
not many people see.

Like, Sunday at Chelsea
was all about bringing the kids in.

I've got memories of my kids
running around the training pitch,

kicking a ball with the manager,

him asking the kids silly questions.

Have they got boyfriends? Girlfriends?

They're six and seven.
They're kind of giggling and all of this.

He put family ahead of everything.

You can't underestimate the importance
of those connections with players

to get the best out of them.

[Terry] He orchestrated us as a group.

He got every single last drop
out of us as players.

[Čech] When we reached
the last part of the season,

we knew we can win it.

We were a fantastic team.
We were winning most weeks.

We felt a little bit invincible,
and we kind of were, you know.

[commentator]
Welcome to the Reebok Stadium

on the day that Chelsea hope to claim
their first league championship title

for 50 years.

[Lampard] We had some games left
to win the league.

Must've been four games after that,
but it was imperative we won it that day.

There was no message of,
"We've got a few games." We had to do it.

I felt a responsibility
to win it for José.

[commentator] Is this finally
to be Chelsea's big day?

[Lampard] We played pretty poorly
in the first half.

[commentator] In towards Davies.

[Lampard] We were tentative, maybe a bit
of nerves because of the situation.

[commentator] There's half-time,
and it probably comes as a blessing.

[emotional music playing]

[Lampard] There was
no half-time hammering.

He just went,
"We're gonna go and win it this half."

[commentator] Drogba. Candela.

Lampard. Frank Lampard here for Chelsea.

Lampard!

That could be the championship!

Frank Lampard for Chelsea!

Lampard! It's 2-0.
It's Chelsea's championship.

[Lampard] My memory is José kind of
wheeling off and running down the line.

When you're manager,
you're idolized at the time.

He's showing those emotions,
and I was part of it 'cause I'd scored.

It was special, very special to me.

-[commentator] All eyes on the referee.
-[whistle blows]

It's Chelsea's title.

And Chelsea Football Club
have come of age.

It was an amazing feeling.
I still have goosebumps thinking about it.

We had a master plan, and we just… did it.

[Terry] We conceded 15 goals that year.

That's a record
I don't think will be beaten.

[man] Everybody'll focus
on Abramovich's money,

but if you're summing up Chelsea's season,
you'll say, "What a great team."

And this guy is absolutely fantastic.
He's the real deal.

The belief he's brought into the team,
and the spirit…

Fantastic. We love his style
and everything.

The best thing
which has happened to football.

[man, nearby] José Mourinho is God.

First there's God, then there's José.

[Mourinho] You don't coach
football players.

You coach and you lead men
that play football.

It's a team sport,

but your relation with them
becomes individual.

You can have the best players,
but if you don't have the best guys,

the team is not perfect, and that team
was the team with the best guys.

That's why that title was everything.

At the end, on the pitch,
it was José, Roman, us.

It's like the perfect vision
of what we'd done that year

'cause it was a family.

Absolutely magnificent.
Absolutely magnificent.

Roman, I think he deserves a lot.
Peter Kenyon.

But this group is really special.

That's why I want to stay with them
the maximum time I can.

So maybe I have to stay
more than the contract I have.

Maybe… maybe more years.

We all knew that Roman wanted
to win the Premier League.

Everything was very clear.

I'm happy, I smile.
I'm not happy, I don't smile.

No talk, talk, talk. We were there to win.

[commentator] This year,
Chelsea have been unstoppable.

The best by a country mile.

-Champions 2005.
-[crowd cheering]

[Mourinho] I knew he was very ruthless
in relation to the results.

So we were expected to win it again.

[reporter] You said on your first day here
that you… called yourself special.

Do you think
you've proved that this season

whatever happens against them?

No, at that time,
I was saying I was special

because I… I was European champions
two days before that.

So I arrived here with my ego…
[sucks air sharply] …big.

[reporters laughing]

-You know?
-Has it gone down?

No, it's even higher.

[laughing]

[Mourinho] At that moment,
I felt pride of my beginnings,

of where I come from,

growing up in a small country.

That means so much to me.

But it's not easy. You miss people.

You even miss your house,
because my house is…

is my house in Portugal.

[alarm beeps]

[Mourinho] It's a small place.

So I'll take you now
to the place where I grew up.

We were out all the time.

Late nights, just playing football
and hanging around.

Yeah, very free. Very, very free.

[gentle music playing]

This is the street where I used to live.

And my mom still lives
on the second floor.

If she sees me, she waves.

My mother was a teacher,
my dad a football coach.

So at home, we knew
what professional football meant.

It was a dream.

Professional football was a dream,
but not an obsession.

I was not a very good player, but I was
taking my football very, very serious.

I don't think they ever worried with me
because I was not giving any problem,

to be honest.

It's hard for people to believe
because now I create many problems,

but, for example, I shouldn't tell you
because people will laugh.

I never got drunk in my life.

Never. So I was this kind of kid.

I was happy in that quiet world.

Then it was perfect
I fulfilled my dreams, of course.

The dreams,
they were coming progressively.

I wanted to be a coach,

but I knew it was going to be hard

because people like me, coming out of uni,

normally, they would become
fitness coaches.

And I think that's my legacy.

I opened the door for many young guys
like me to… to… to have a dream.

My experiences were always preparing me
for the next one.

What I learned as a kid
with my father, then the uni,

being an assistant coach at Benfica,

Porto, and Barcelona, of course,

before I start as a head coach.

Then the door opened.

[reporter, in Portuguese] José Mourinho
is now the new coach of FC Porto.

[Mourinho, in English]
When I arrived, you know,

Porto, for a young guy,
was a big challenge.

So we go to the press conference.

And I did something
that in football I never do,

which is to promise things.

[in Portuguese] I'm sure that next year
we're going to be national champions.

Now. Now.

[in English] That was a big b*mb.

But I really trusted myself.

The same way that Special One
became iconic in England,

that one became iconic in Portugal.

Was I naive?

Arrogant?

I don't think so.

[in Portuguese] With four games to go,
Porto have secured the league title

with a five-goal win over Santa Clara.

[Mourinho, in English] I told
this was going to happen, and happened.

Normal day in the office.

[reporter, in Portuguese]
How are you feeling?

Happy. Happy.

-The high point of your career?
-For now, yes. But I want more.

-What do you mean, you want more?
-I want more titles.

[in English] I had history to make.

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] Porto are the winners
of this season's UEFA Cup.

[Mourinho] If that's what I want to do,
I have to be the best

and, uh, fulfil my potential.

[commentator] It's another big
Champions League night at Old Trafford.

Manchester United against
Portuguese champions Porto.

[Mourinho] This game against Man United
changed everything.

[commentator] Jankauskas,
looking for a free kick

and has got one from Phil Neville.

It may all come down
to this free kick now.

We are inside the last minute.

Now or never for Porto.

It's McCarthy.

It's a good save by Howard.

It's been turned in by Costinha!

Last minute.

[Mourinho] When I see that run,

I can still feel the weight of the jacket.

I can feel it.

That was the moment
when I introduced myself to the world.

After the game,
we were in the dressing room celebrating.

Some gentleman knocking the door,

"Sir Alex wants to… to say hello to you."

I had to get in and wish him all the best

because you're judged on your results.

And that was an amazing moment for José.

It was a lesson of… a lesson of class.

[commentator] And Porto are
the Champions League winners.

[Mourinho] A few months later,
we won the Champions League.

[commentator] Complete outsiders,
but it seems virtually no end

to their capabilities

under the guidance of José Mourinho.

[Mourinho] That night,
I was less emotional than I am now.

I was selfish.

I knew that this cup is going to…
to Porto,

but tomorrow I'm going to London.

I wanted to win new titles,
in places where I've never been.

For me, greatness is to be in history.

[reporter] What are your plans?
More talks here?

[Mourinho] But then, in the opposite side,

there is envy. There is jealousy.

It's not, uh, atomic science.

It's just the nature of the human being.

[unsettling music playing]

[Čech] The second season,
the pressure was big

because everybody started saying,

"They won it. Okay, can they do it again?"
'Cause the big teams do it again.

But at the same time, we knew the drill,

we knew exactly where the standard is,

and we wanted to win again, to be honest.

We were obsessed with it.

[Mourinho] Roman was always pushing
for more and more and more.

"Let's chase another dream.
Let's go again." Okay.

But two in a row
was going to be very, very hard.

[Terry] We disrupted
Man United and Arsenal.

We didn't expect them
to sit there and take it.

We expected them to come back fighting
like top teams do

and top managers like Sir Alex
and Arsène Wenger do as well.

Second time around is definitely harder.

It's not the success.
It's continued success that's harder.

Everybody waiting. [laughs]

Every single team waiting for us.

It is the world against us.

[mutters]

People want us to lose.

All the time, you know?

But as soon as we started the season,

it felt like, you know what?
We're gonna be strong again.

[commentator 1] Chelsea threatening.

-And scoring! Hernan Crespo has won it!
-[hopeful music playing]

[commentator 2] Lampard continues
where he left off last season.

[commentator 3] Towards Drogba.

[reporter] He celebrated four goals,

saw his team go nine points clear
at the top of the Premiership table,

and Mourinho said he felt

Chelsea weren't getting
the respect they deserved.

We were boring.
We were winning every weekend.

The best goalkeeper in the world? Boring.

Drogba goals? Boring.

Frank Lampard scoring 30 goals? Boring.

Everything was boring.

When Man United dominate the Premiership,
was not boring.

When Arsenal dominate the Premiership,
was not boring.

Now we don't dominate, we just won…

-Uh, how many? Seven matches?
-[Kenyon] Seven matches.

We just won seven matches.
And, uh, we don't dominate.

We just won seven matches.
And it's boring.

On top of it,
people couldn't stop speaking about

the Chelsea potential to "buy" the title.

{\an8}[Wenger] Chelsea will be
the financially doped club

because they have unlimited resources.

Good luck to them, of course,

but, uh, it stretches a little bit
the financial potential

of the clubs who do not have that income.

[sighs] I was not enjoying
his approach to the situation.

He didn't even tell once,

"Well done, guys. You won the title.
You did well. We cannot beat you."

I don't think he behaved very, very well.

-So I called him voyeur.
-[somber music playing]

Then, of course, the establishment go
against me and not against him.

I find it, uh, out of order,

disconnected with reality,
and disrespectful.

My words were strong words.

But it's also obvious
that we have a file of 120 pages

about quotes from Mr. Wenger
in relation to Chelsea Football Club.

[Wenger] I'm not obsessed at all
with Chelsea.

I'm at a club where I'm very happy at.

[Kenyon] That's when I said,
"Look, you're taking it too far,

and the implications of that are
you might win this,

but we'll be docked points."

I think sometimes I can be

pretty aggressive

in the vocabulary.

I can be really nasty, aggressive.

It's a place where, normally, I win.

[man, as Wenger] Hello?

{\an8}Voyeur, I told you,
we don't want you on this show.

{\an8}[as Wenger] The feeling is mutual…

{\an8}[Kenyon] All those things
were going against

how Roman wanted Chelsea to be perceived.

{\an8}[as Wenger] You insist
on calling me "voyeur"

{\an8}with the fake newspaper headlines.

{\an8}They are not fake.

{\an8}[Kenyon] So we had
some robust discussions.

But there was no compromise.

José's style is
you're in it or you're out of it.

-[cheering]
-[somber music continues]

[commentator] Welcome to Highbury.

We are here for perhaps
the most significant match

of the English Premier League season
so far.

[Mourinho] Honestly,
I enjoyed the negativity.

For example,

I enjoy so much the antagonism
of playing away.

José would be like, "This lot hate you."
D'you know what I mean?

[crowd shouting]

[Mourinho] I would always
tell them to warm up

close to the most, let's say,
radical fans from the opposition.

[Lampard] And we enjoyed it.

As soon as the game started,

we had an extra edge
than most teams in that period.

It was a siege mentality,
us against the whole Premier League.

[commentator] Drogba for Robben.
He's onside.

Chance here for Chelsea and Arjen Robben.

One-nil.

[Lampard] He helped build these conflicts
with certain clubs and managers.

I think it was another strategy.

[commentator] No handshakes
between managers.

Mourinho straight down the tunnel.

I think it's important
that you keep English, uh, values

that make the game, uh, respected
and admired everywhere.

And part of it is everybody can have
an opinion about the game.

In the end, I think he is,
as much as I am, if not more,

"guilty" of that beautiful fight.

Absolutely beautiful.

[tense music playing]

[commentator] "Just one point"
is the Chelsea anthem.

Their supporters know

they're within touching distance
of a second consecutive title.

William Gallas joins them.

In they all go to… Oh, it's Gallas.

It's William Gallas
who got the second header.

And Chelsea are in front
in four and a half minutes.

That season, by the mental point of view,
was a… was a tough one.

[commentator] Here's Cole.

Oh, he's dodged his way
through there, Joe Cole.

Well, that's a superb goal.

Good enough to grace
any championship occasion.

Can he score? Oh, I say!

A cr*cker. 3-0, Chelsea.

[final whistle blows]

Chelsea are champions
for the second year running,

and only the third time in their history.

[Mourinho] We won two in a row.

And two in a row,

especially at that time,
was… was very, very hard.

And especially with a team
that didn't even win one title,

imagine to do it twice.

So, yeah, it was, um…

it was a great time. Yeah.

-[crowd cheering]
-[commentator] There it is.

Chelsea are the champions
for the second time in 12 months.

The one thing
that José did have at the time

was complete strength
and power at the club.

What impact José had had and how
he carried himself meant he ran it.

From our view as a player,

what you see is José Mourinho
can do what he wants at this place.

Train, prepare, fight with the media,
joke with us behind the scenes,

all these things he was doing.

We were in such a sweet spot that it was…

Everything felt so good

that we had no reason to believe
this would ever end.

I think we would've hoped
it would last forever.

[Mourinho] But things started to change.

It was not our Chelsea.

[reporter] Can you honestly say
you've enjoyed this season?

At times,
you haven't looked like you were.

No, no, I didn't enjoy so much.
No, to be fair, I didn't enjoy so much.

Uh, I should be more happy.

I should be more happy.

After that season, you could sense
a slight change in terms of mood.

My sense was that it was to do with
the politics changing around the club.

[Čech] He was not really happy.
That was clear.

It was not as obvious for people
who would not know him.

But we'd seen him for two seasons.
We knew how he is.

It felt like from José being
the leader of this g*ng,

now other people
were having conversations.

I got a sense the manager
wasn't so happy with that.

You're either with him or against him.

[Villas-Boas] His charisma
and leadership type

can create those emotions.

You create so much attachment to him,

and you devote yourself
so much to the leader,

that can lead to big break-ups.

[Kenyon] When you've been with him,
you understand what he can do

and what he can unlock

and… and what he can bring.

But unless the environment
can cope with that,

you might as well not have him

'cause he'll leave you broken.

-[laughs]
-[tense music building]

[Mourinho] I felt betrayed.

I needed revenge.

-[string chord plays]
-[music ends]

[dramatic music playing]