LONDON: Less than 12 months since his second spell as Chelsea manager ended amid on-pitch turmoil and bitter off-pitch recrimination, Jose Mourinho returns to Stamford Bridge with Manchester United on Sunday.
With three Premier League titles, three League Cups and one FA Cup won across his two stints in west London, Mourinho is the most successful manager in Chelsea’s history.
The love affair ended last December after nine league defeats and what technical director Michael Emenalo termed “palpable discord” between manager and players, but Mourinho prefers to remember the good times.
“Some managers, when they leave clubs, they like to — I don’t know if you have the same saying in England — wash their dirty clothes,” he said.
“It means speak about what happened and go back and speak and speak and speak. I’m not (like) that.
“I leave the clubs and I leave with a very good feeling, a feeling of: I did everything to succeed, I gave everything to the club and I don’t like to go back and speak, especially about the bad things.
“I keep the good things and in Chelsea (there were) so many good things in terms of results, in terms of friends that I have for life, an amazing empathy with the supporters.
“The supporters didn’t change their relation with me because last season was a couple of months with bad results.
“So I keep all these good memories.”
