It was the look of despair on Giuseppe’s face that first sounded the alarm. Giuseppe, a lifelong Roma fan, works at the Vatican Press Office. It was the morning after Roma’s mid-January Italian Cup elimination by city rivals, Lazio, and he was in total despair. Like a lot of Roma fans, he had only one thought in mind.
“Mourinho has got to go,” he moaned, “and the sooner, the better”.
You could argue that the sacking of Roma coach Jose Mourinho came as a surprise that flew in the face of the Portuguese guru’s huge popularity with many of the club’s fans. Yet the football realist would
