As Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho was known for dishing it out to
anyone who met with his disapproval. But it seems that, when it
comes to schoolboy taunts, the self-proclaimed Special One simply
can't take it.
Mourinho, who prior to his dismissal from Chelsea this season had
said that he was more "serene" than ever, seems to have flown into
a rage when his 11-year-old daughter told him about playground
taunts that another boy had made, comparing her with her
father.
Mourinho went into the playground at the £6,500-a-year school his
daughter attends in Setabul, near Lisbon, on Wednesday afternoon
and found the boy who had been taunting his daughter,
Matilde.
He then appears to have pulled the 12-year-old boy by the ears and
gave him a thorough dressing down, as other parents and pupils
looked on in bemusement. It is not clear whether he employed the
"hairdryer" technique favoured by his former rival, Sir Alex
Ferguson.
One witness told the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha that he
was left "speechless" as he watched Mourinho scold Pedro
Antonio.
Mourinho, 44, was then hauled into the office of the headmistress
like a naughty schoolboy and made to apologise to his tearful
victim and his family.
Isabal Simao, headmistress of St Peter's School, said that Mourinho
appeared truly embarrassed and later wrote to the boy and the
school to apologise for his behaviour.
