As with Borges’ Aleph, José Mourinho is the point in football space that contains all others, from which everything else is perfectly visible. Gazing into his depths courts madness — and yet some still try: Riccardo Rossi of FourFourTwo says Mourinho has split into good and evil like Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount and must be unsundered; Sean Rubio at The Run of Play dares enter the first-person S.O. and finds the ultimate negative football.
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