''Roman understands football, he loves football, he eats football,'' continued Mourinho. ''After the weekend he will see me on Monday and say 'did you see the Barcelona-Sevilla game, Lyon against Monaco and the Roma-Inter match?'
In a country that eats, breathes and lives football, where commerce stops for it and elections are planned by it, he insisted that the most vital thing was to get rid of poverty, build roads and schools and, not least, teach manners.