Interviewing José Mourinho: ego, charisma, talent and his ‘rucksack of pain’

Director Joe Pearlman says he expected Real Madrid manager to ‘try to manipulate us’ in making of Netflix series Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display in a new three-part Netflix series. “It reminded me how good he was,” says Joe Pearlman, who directed Mourinho, and the actual Mourinho is, believe it or not, keen to communicate the same. As he…