Ahhhh my bad,
I assumed that was Sterling or Foden!
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brilliant stuff,
i wish the mighty Clachnacuddin could have a former star player for a game,
we’d probably still lose though…
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Something that we do not pay too much attention to (Pre- & post-match press conferences translators), but important.
Also did not know that Mourinho started out in football as an interpreter.
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He didn’t really. He was added to Robson’s team at Sporting to help with communication, but he was already a professional coach before that and it was still a coaching role.
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Before that he was Robsons translator at Barca.
That is one of the reasons he has such a hard on for beating them, and Pep. Pep was one of the ring leaders at Barca that gave him the nickname the translator
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After that. He followed Robson from Sporting to Porto and then to Barca.
But calling it a translator is a misnomer, possibly given as a purposeful insult by those who didnt like him, or came to not like him later. The job at Sporting came up because Robbo wanted help communicating with the players, but it was still a coaching role for which only coaches were considered, and every other role he took with Robson was taken as a trusted footballing assistant.
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Didnt know that. I always thought they first worked together at Barca then moved from there.
Didnt Mourinho say his translations were not always faithful to the original comments from Bobby?
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And who can blame him. He’d first have to correct all of Robson’s famous mistakes of identity!
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Seems like such an odd couple really. Robson always came across as a decent, nice gentleman.
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For any quizzers out there and without googling for the answer straight away…
Can anyone name the well known actress mother of Oliver Holt…?
Took me completely by surprise…
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Famous? I’d never heard of her! 
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Had to google to find out, and still don’t know who she is
Emily bishop…coronation street…i think…
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I never knew that.
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Coronation street OMG, the last time that was on Dutch television must be 40 years ago, is Ena Sharples still in it.
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I’ll confess…I did google it…but knew who it was, when I saw the name…