Jose Mourinho: How ‘Special One’ changed Chelsea and Premier League
His destination was preordained, off and away to switch the "dead man walking" at Chelsea, the likeable Claudio Ranieri, who had been sacked within times of leading the Blues to some second-placed finish along with a semi-final devote the Champions League.
Mourinho had grabbed the Premier League's attention when sprinting lower that old Trafford touchline within the last 16, and interest was piqued much more as he famously pronounced themself "The Special One" throughout his first news conference as Chelsea boss.
Loved and loathed in almost equal measures, Mourinho would be a gust of outdoors who taken with the British top flight, delivering Chelsea's first title win in half a century about this day fifteen years ago.
Here is how he made it happen.
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