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Man Utd news: Mourinho criticising City is bizarre after he did this in his office - Lowe
MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho has been hypocritical with his behaviour after the Manchester derby loss to rivals City on Sunday.
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That is according to ESPN FC’s Spanish football expert Sid Lowe.
Mourinho was not happy with the way Manchester City celebrated the 2-1 win at Old Trafford on Sunday and asked them to turn the music down in the away dressing room.
A fracas erupted with City coach Mikel Arteta sustaining a cut above his eye in the incident.
Lowe got to know Mourinho well during the Portuguese’s time as Real Madrid manager between 2010 and 2013.
Man Utd news: Jose Mourinho has been hypocritical with his comments about Man City, says Lowe
He had that every single day staring at him when he was Real Madrid manager!
He says Mourinho used to keep a cardboard cutout in his office of the infamous image of him celebrating Inter Milan’s Champions League win over Barcelona in 2010.
So Lowe admits he cannot understand why the now Manchester United manager has complained about another team’s celebrations.
“If you’re the person who’s done some of the celebrations that Mourinho’s done, to then go and ask Man City to keep it down when they’re inside the dressing room is bizarre,” Lowe said.
“To give you another example, that famous image of Mourinho running on the pitch at the Camp Nou after Inter Milan had knocked them out of the semi-final of the Champions League, with his finger up and Victor Valdes went over to him and said ‘look, don’t wind it up, you’re in front of the fans, don’t wind it up’.
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Man Utd news: Jose Mourinho kept a cardboard cutout of himself in his office at Real Madrid
“Actually I felt Valdes was relatively calm that night.
“Anyway, that image, life-size, cardboard cutout version of that image was in Jose Mourinho’s manager’s office when he was at Real Madrid.
“It’s not like that was a moment that he kind of got a bit out of control and thought ‘well I feel a bit ashamed of that’.
“He had that every single day staring at him when he was Real Madrid manager! So yeah, it is bizarre.”
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