When a news is revealed by a reliable source, it is often understood that it would cent percent be accurate, but sometimes, in many cases, river flows in the opposite direction. Indeed, there have been many cases in the past when a fabled news source published a story and after knowing the mistake, they immediately put it offline. This time, it happens with Jose Mourinho who recently discharged from Real Madrid after defeating Osasuna by 4-2. Actually, Premier League issued a story last Sunday that Mourinho had joined his old club Chelsea where he had served in the past from 2004 to 2008. The rumors were in the air for quite some time about his link ups with The Blue, but no official information has ever been disclosed either by Jose Mourinho or Chelsea, and when this news of their deal flashed on by the Premier League on its website, everyone stunned to see how come all this happened all of a sudden within few days of his departure from La Liga club? The ‘wrong’ story was immediately removed by the officials knowing the factual mistake therein.
The story said, “Portuguese coach is back at Stamford Bridge after signing a XX-year contract. Jose Mourinho returns for second stint as Chelsea manager. Portuguese signs x-year-deal.” But, Premier League spokesman later admitted their mistake and said, “It was a publishing error. We took it down as soon as we were notified of it. We’ve apologised to Chelsea.”
Interestingly, Premier League apologized even before Chelsea could react about the facts of this story. However, EPL club never denied the fact that Mourinho can return to his old club. In fact, David Johnstone, spokesman for Chelsea, recently said, “The Chelsea players and the supporters will love him. For a lot of time since he left, supporters haven’t been united. Last season saw probably the worst show of disunity I’ve experienced since I started following the club 40 years ago. Hopefully he will unite the fans. It will be a relief once the deal is finally announced and he will be welcomed back. He shouldn’t have left in the first place and hopefully second time around it could be even better.”
Mourinho has been one of the best coaches Chelsea could ever have, perhaps it was he who led Blues to win two back to back Premier League titles back in 2005 and 2006 – something that was missing from their hall of fame since last 50 years. Anyways, now the matter has cooled down but nobody knows if we hear the news again but with accurate facts!