Sergio the First
10-09-2005, 14:16
It seems that portuguese Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho will be the first football coach to have his person reproduced in wax in the famous Madame Tussaud´s Museum. Do you think that it´s a deserved honour? Won´t it add even more to Mourinho´s arrogance? Should it have been Sir Alex Ferguson´to get such treatement? Or is the idea of having a football coach in Madame Tussaud´s Museum a silly concept?
Madame Tussaud's itself is a silly concept. :rolleyes:
I Still Like Oranges
10-09-2005, 15:24
its nit though, MT's is a fun place and the realism of some of the models is astounding, the prices are very high which is a down point but its a great experience.
about the JM wax figure, its preposturous, just cos he's flavour of the month, he's an egotistical, self centred bastard. i respect him as a coach but not as a person and there are so many who deserve to be in there ahead of him
Kill YOU Dead
11-09-2005, 04:03
I think that if any football coach should be in the wax museum, it should be Green Bay's Vince Lombardi.
P.S. I know you guys are talking about soccer.
HowTheDeadLive
11-09-2005, 04:13
It seems that portuguese Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho will be the first football coach to have his person reproduced in wax in the famous Madame Tussaud´s Museum. Do you think that it´s a deserved honour? Won´t it add even more to Mourinho´s arrogance? Should it have been Sir Alex Ferguson´to get such treatement? Or is the idea of having a football coach in Madame Tussaud´s Museum a silly concept?
Alex Ferguson? Merely an average sized coach in a field of midgets (we are talking the past 15 years). Mourinho? Well, maybe somewhat better, given his record in other countries and Europe (he's already won the European Cup as many times as Ferguson, at a smaller, poorer club, in a career about 20 years shorter) but still no.
There's only two contenders, in my eyes, for English based managers who should have been immortalised thus:-
Bill Shankly (more successful over a shorter period than Ferguson. Compare the length of Shankly's reign with the first x amount of years of Fergusons to see. And Shankly took over Liverpool when they were a club in decline and guided them back to the top, whereas Ferguson took over United when their riches meant that - not having won the league aside - they were still one of the biggest teams in England, if not Europe). Shankly also had to compete against a real field of big managers, including Don Revie, Matt Busby, and, the all time best English League manager, the main contender for such a dubious "honour"...
Ole Big 'Ead himself, the late great Brian Clough. Took over Derby when they were tiny, and in decline. Won the League with them. Went to Forest when they were in decline. Won the League AND European Cup with them. Stayed too long at Forest, but still, head and shoulders above everyone else you could mention.