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This time it's personal. Barcelona's coach, Josep Guardiola, finally exploded, sending a year of pent-up anger and frustration gushing forth as he responded to José Mourinho on the eve of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid.
The question now is whether Mourinho will feel that he has won the mental battle, dragging Guardiola into territory that is not his own, or if Guardiola will feel a release at having at last had his say. And what a say it was. The days of a respectful silence, of turning the other cheek, are definitively over. This was more like the aggressive weigh-in before a prize fight, complete with an air of "you and me outside".
Mourinho had pricked Guardiola's pride once too often by accusing him of complaining about referees who get decisions right. It was an accusation that Guardiola, normally so measured, was not prepared to let pass – the last straw after a year that has been a war of attrition. Guardiola was finally drawn into battle. "He called me Pep, so I answered," Guardiola said at the end of a breathtaking 45 minutes. "Normally, he talks in general terms about a team, a club or a manager, but this time he named me. If he says: 'Pep,' I say: 'Hey, José.'"
He said more than "hey". Sitting down in the press room at the Santiago Bernabéu, he said: "As Mourinho has spoken so candidly about me and spoken about me by name, and using tú [the informal form of you], then I will do the same." He then asked which of the gathered cameras was "Mourinho's camera" and began.
"Tomorrow at 8.45 we will play a match on the field," Guardiola said. " Outside of the field, he has won the entire year, the entire season and in the future [it will be the same]. He can have his personal Champions League outside the field. Fine. Let him enjoy it, I'll give him that. But this is a game. When it comes to sport we will play and sometimes we will win, sometimes we will lose. We are happy with smaller victories, trying to get the world to admire us and we are very proud of this.
"I can give you an immense list of things [that we could complain about]: 300,000 things. We could remember Stamford Bridge and another thousand things but I do not have that many people working for me. Secretaries and referees and people writing stuff. So tomorrow, 8.45pm, we will take to the field and we will try to play football as best as possible.
"In this room [Real Madrid's press room], he is the chief, the f***ing man. In here he is the f***ing man and I can't compete with him. If Barcelona want someone who competes with that, then they should look for another manager. But we, as a person and an institution, don't do that. I could talk about [Olegario] Bequerença [the referee from last season's Barcelona-Inter semi-final first leg], about the offside goal from Diego Milito or the penalty of [Dani] Alves, but I don't. Well, until tonight!
"If you think after three years, that I always moan, always make excuses and always complain, then there is nothing I can do about that.
Mourinho had provoked Guardiola by referring to comments his rival made after Madrid's victory in the Copa del Rey final last week. Guardiola had noted that his side had been close to winning: had a Pedro goal not been ruled out for a very close but correct offside, described by the coach as "the linesman's good eyesight", Barcelona might have taken the trophy.
"A new era has begun," Mourinho said on Tuesday. "Until now there were two groups of coaches. One very, very small group of coaches that don't speak about refs and then a big group of coaches, of which I am part, who criticise the refs when they have mistakes – people like me who don't control their frustration but also people who are happy to value a great job from a ref.
"Now there is a third group, which is only [Guardiola], that criticises referees when they get decisions right! There is a new meaning to [football] now. In his first season [Guardiola] lived the scandal of Stamford Bridge [in the semi-final], last year he played against a 10-man Inter. Now he is not happy with refs getting it right. I am not asking the referee to help my team. If the referee is good everyone will be happy – except Guardiola. He wants them to get it wrong."
Guardiola worked with Mourinho at Barcelona but considers their relationship to be shattered by this. "We worked together for four years. He knows me, I know him and that's all. If he wants to go by things written after the Copa del Rey by friends from the written press or Florentino Pérez, with his milkmaid's tales, then fine. If that matters more than our relationship, then that's up to him. I am not going to justify my words. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when someone you had a relationship with does [what he has done]. I always thought that when people didn't understand me, it was because I had explained myself badly, but now I don't. I said the referee [in the cup final] had been smart and very attentive. I said it was right. I pointed out simply that the result can be down to small things, that's all. It was not a complaint. After victory I congratulated Real Madrid and that is what Barcelona does. We congratulated RM for the cup that they won on the field against a team that I represent proudly."
Asked if this was just a tactic, Guardiola replied: "What? You think my players will run around more because I looked for Mourinho's camera? It's a semi-final!"
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Josep Maria Bartomeu : "Enough is enough Mourinho"
Josep Maria Bartomeu joined Pep Guardiola in criticism poured on Jose Mourinho in the wake of this attack to the Barcelona coach. FC Barcelona vice-president believes it's time to say "enough" to an entire season of attacks by the Real coach. "There have been two times that exceeded the limit of patience and have reached out to remove. The first was when Barcelona was accused of doping, and therefore put a complaint to COPE and now with the personal attack to our coach. "
Bartomeu could not help but remember that "throughout the season, Mr Mourinho has not stopped attacking us with the referees, schedule, playing 10 against 11, the grass ... We have not said anything, because our philosophy is to play football and ignore anything else, but these two personal attacks that we have done enough. And here we are all together, coaches, players and managers. "
Barcelona vice president explained that "Mr. Mourinho should know that the press in Catalonia is independent and does not write to dictation, as in other places." Is clear that, as you said Guardiola, "we want to go back to our one speech, the one we know and that is none other than football, leaving the field to play and forget everything else and that's what we do tonight . With the players we have come out to play and try to pass the final. "
Barca leader reiterated that "we just want to talk football, but we can not let personal attacks such as those conducted for all staff and to our coach."
One thing I do notice nowadays is that Barca lacks the media power championing our club. We lack the back up from media to express our point of view to wider audience. It frustrates me as a cule.
Now I can fully understand why Pep finally lost his temper. Pep has been trying to ignore all this antics by Mou, and he even managed to say good things about Mou when he had the chance. He said after Mou won the European Best Coach award:
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“He is probably the best coach in the world. Mourinho’s career is perfect. His run in several countries is immaculate.”
And yet, we hear more and more trash talking from the Special One, and things get worse when he launched personal attack to Guardiola. The press and fans hailed him as the best coach our era, I don't care about that. Trying to get into the head of his opposite numbers just before the crucial games, just to get the 'psychological edge', personally I can't stand this sh!t. Very disgusting.
Added on April 27, 2011, 2:04 pmIf you guys want to know more of this Pep vs Mou media strom, check out
Sid Lowe's twitter.
One of the stuffs he wrote:
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Guardiola had clearly decided that he was going to do this. Not a snap response to question, but a concerted performance from start.
This post has been edited by matyrze: Apr 27 2011, 02:04 PM 
Apr 21 2011, 08:46 PM
Assuming that you refer to the same incident I have in mind of course 
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