Richard Fitzpatrick
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677 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 May
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in the interwar years.
So his resort to violence was a pronounced feature of his personality.
Yet he was practicing meditation and yoga, practicing yoga naked every morning.
chanting self-help mantras to himself, you know, I feel strong, calm, serene, I am lucky, I am also beautiful, you know, bigging himself up.
So he was such a curious mix of influences from Zen to skullduggery to physical violence.
Incredible.
Like, you know, back-to-back league titles with Atletico, they'll never again win back-to-back league titles, you would think.
Same with Barca.
And then Grand Inter in the 60s were the team to beat in that decade.
That's why when they met their Waterloo at the 67 European Cup final, losing to Celtic, which was a huge, huge surprise, everybody rejoiced.
I interviewed Hugh McIlvany, who's sadly passed away,
for the book.
He was in the dressing room that day in Lisbon when Celtic won.
And he said everybody was just ecstatic that they had beaten the, you know, the king of anti-football in the decade.
100%.
Mourinho used his playbook, that's all the signs, the motivational techniques, you know, writing slogans on the dressing room walls, which HH did.
Mourinho did that four decades later with Chelsea, particularly the bombast in the media, playing the media games, trying to distract attention from his players.
It came easily to HH because he had such a huge ego.
He loved waging war on rival managers and goading rival players in the press and eating up that attention.
He was in love with the camera.
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