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Published 11:52 20 Jan 2019 GMT
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But for years, it has been rumoured that Mourinho was actually smuggled into his team's dressing room, hidden in a laundry basket.
The tale became part of modern football mythology, but it has never been confirmed. Until now.
Jose Mourinho joined Richard Keys and Andy Gray as a pundit on BeIN Sports this week, and finally opened up about the incident.
Keys asked him point-blank if he was really in the laundry basket, and Mourinho unashamedly answered: "Yes, yes I was".
"The fundamental thing of it is: Chelsea v Bayern Munich, a big match in the Champions League. I need to be with my players. And I did it, yeah."And he had no qualms about telling all about the ruse. It seems getting in was easy - it was getting out undetected that was the hard part. And it was a lot more dangerous than you might have thought.
https://twitter.com/beINSPORTS/status/1086729105486143489 Imagine how different history would have been if Jose Mourinho has suffocated in a metal laundry basket in 2005."I go to the dressing room during the day, so I was there. I'm there since midday, and the game is seven o'clock, and I just want to be in the dressing room when the players arrive."
"So I go there, nobody sees me. The problem was to leave after." "[Chelsea kit man] Stewart Bannister put me in the basket. The metal one, the hard one. Puts me in there. I go in there with a little bit open, so I could breathe." "But when Stewart is taking that outside the dressing room, outside the stadium, the UEFA guys... were desperate to find me." "So when I was there, Stewart closed the box. I couldn't breathe. When he opened the box, I was dying." "I'm serious. I was claustrophobic. It's true, it's true."
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