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He should never have been ignored

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José Mourinho has spent more than two decades convincing football that he should never have been ignored. Netflix’s MOURINHO proves he was right.

Across three episodes, we revisit Porto’s impossible Champions League triumph, the swaggering arrival at Chelsea, the emotional conquest of Europe with Inter Milan and the warfare that followed at Real Madrid. The trophies are extraordinary. The personalities surrounding him are enormous. Yet somehow, Mourinho remains bigger than all of it.

Mourinho is fascinating to discuss because he genuinely sees the game differently. Former players describe a manager who can create extraordinary loyalty while demanding almost total commitment. Zlatan Ibrahimović’s recollections are particularly entertaining, while Frank Lampard and John Terry help explain why Mourinho’s first Chelsea side appeared to believe they were invincible, but when you ask Mourinho to look inward, the famous defensive block returns.

The documentary repeatedly approaches the man behind “The Special One”, only for Mourinho to retreat behind the persona he has spent decades perfecting. His relationship with his late father provides a rare crack in that armour. The arrogance makes more sense.

You glimpse the insecurity underneath the relentless obsession with winning and then the wall goes back up. Controversies deserve deeper interrogation, and at times the series seems more interested in preserving Mourinho’s legend than challenging it; perhaps that frustration reveals something truthful.

Mourinho has never separated football from himself. Victory is personal. Defeat is personal. Loyalty matters enormously, while betrayal appears to remain permanently filed away somewhere in his memory. You may admire him. You may despise him.

After three hours, you probably still won’t completely understand him. Twenty years after announcing himself to English football, José Mourinho remains what he has always been: absolute box office.