I Feel Like A ‘Kid’ Again - Mourinho

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was delighted after finally ending a three-year wait for a trophy and admitted that he felt like a kid again before the final.

The Portuguese was in joyous mood, but did not forget to commiserate Chelsea’s opponents Tottenham and their manager Mauricio Pochettino who he has a good relationship with, “First of all I want to say that in the middle of my happiness is space to think about Mauricio Pochettino, his staff and Tottenham as a team and a club,’ said the Blues boss. ‘I met him in Spain many years ago as a player and then when he was a young manager when I was at Real Madrid. He came to England, proved himself, nobody gave him anything for free.

“He did fantastic work at Southampton, came to a big club like Tottenham and is building a fantastic team. They gave us a hard final, they made us be humble and think about the game strategically.”

Mourinho then went on and revealed that it was hard for him to go three years without a trophy despite building a good team, “For me it’s important to feel like I’m a kid, before the game I had the same feelings as my first final. It’s important to feel the same happiness after the game. I know I have a team to build, which is what we are doing but it’s difficult for me to live without winning things even if we are doing the work to be stable for many years. It’s important for me, the boys and for the club it’s another cup.

“It’s the first trophy for a new group of players. You have Cech, Terry and Drogba but after that everyone belongs to a new group of players, so for the team it’s very important.

Chelsea’s rivals for the League, Manchester City, lost their game against Liverpool, and Mourinho admitted that despite the result being a positive one for the blues, he tried to keep his side focussed on the final, ” The perfect day was to win the final. I prepared them for an impossible mission, which was to not know the Man City result. I didn’t want a television in the hotel or on the bus. I didn’t want any reactions to that, we were successful, but one member of my staff, Silvinho, jumped up on the bus. I wanted to kill the guy, a member of my own staff broke the rule. I wanted to stop them having a reaction and focus on what they had to do, we had a very difficult job against Tottenham”