Quotes from Mourinho

"Please don't call me arrogant, I am European champion so I am not one of the bottle, I think I'm a special one."

- Jose's unassuming (and slightly curious) introduction to English football on his appointment as Chelsea manager in 2004.

"I don't like being the villain, but the good ones are normally losers. I don't care too much about image. I don't think it's possible to be loved by everyone. Not in life - and especially not in football."

- The villainous winner lays out his philosophy.

"I am not concerned about how Chelsea are viewed morally. What does concern me is that we are treated in a different way to other clubs. Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels. I don't think we are so ugly that we should be seen as the devil and I don't think Arsene Wenger and David Dein are so beautiful that they should be viewed as angels."

- The start of a beautiful relationship with his north London neighbours.

"For me pressure is bird flu. I am feeling a lot of pressure with the swan in Scotland. You are laughing, but I am serious. I am more scared of the bird flu than football. What is football compared with life? A swan with bird flu, for me, that is the drama of the last two days. I have to buy some masks and stuff."

- Jose puts it all in perspective.

"It's like having a blanket that is too small for the bed. You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket is made of cashmere."

- Not sure, but we think he was talking about his injury crisis and lack of transfer funds, while insisting the squad he had was more than plenty.

"Many great managers have never won the Champions League - a big example is not far from us."

- Yet another wink in the direction of a French resident of north London.

"Wenger has a real problem with us and I think he is what you call in England a voyeur . . . there are some guys who, when they are at home, have this big telescope to look in to the homes of other people and see what is happening. Wenger must be one of them - and it is a sickness. He speaks, speaks, speaks about Chelsea."

- Speaking of French residents of . . .

"If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this."

- This time Jose switches his attention to the northwest, wishing Liverpool all the best in the Champions League.

"Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job."

- And then sends hugs and kisses to Rafa Benitez.

"If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business we would be bankrupt."

- A hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink message to his boss.

" The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs - no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem."

- Jose less than a week ago. Some felt this was proof his brains were scrambled, but perhaps he just sensed he was about to be fried.

" One of the reasons why some people love me and some hate me is I never close my mouth. I say what I have to say."

- Jose? We'll miss you.