The famous gesture of Mourinho and those of the other technicians who “lost their heads”
José Mourinho’s handcuffs turn 15. They “taken” on Saturday 20 February 2010, in San Siro. The Inter-Sampdoria advance, Tagliavento referee of Terni is played. Inter are first with seven points ahead of Claudio Ranieri’s Rome. Spigolosa game, Walter Samuel and Ramiro Cordoba are expelled for a double warning. Inter in nine from 36 ‘of the first half. Final 0-0. José Mourinho, who had presented himself in Milan saying “I am not an idiot”, in total dissent with the referee crosses the wrists and makes the gesture of handcuffs in favor of the camera, further raising the tension. Two days later he is disqualified by the sports judge: three days. The explanations of Massimo Moratti, president of Inter. “The handcuffs? Only José knows the meaning of his gesture, he did it and he has to explain it. Maybe he meant to say they want to stop.” José Mourinho tells the episode in his autobiography: “When I was at Inter I always had the feeling that the referees made chain errors against us. At some point I prepared the team to play in 10 against 11, for be ready in the event that we had lost a man by expulsion. The hands tied, you referee you are to locate ‘”. Mou’s handcuffs will go down in history, like his other gestures. The hand in the ear to the fans of Milan and Juve: “I don’t feel, I did not understand, stronger”. In 2010 Inter won the Triplete. Three like three trophies. And three fingers, another gesture to remember to the “noise of enemies” that, in Italy, no one has ever managed to cross this goal.