I must admit, I am falling for the yet-nascent psychodrama that is Mourinho in Madrid (“MiM” from now on). So I eagerly clicked thru when online footy mag fourfourtwo.com‘s La Liga Loca blog led with the headline “Mourinho Finally Gets Mad“, and kicked off the post with some purple prose:

For months now, the Spanish press have been performing their solemn duty of trying to make José Mourinho go completely postal, but sadly with little success.

However, on Monday evening, it was joy to the world and ding dong merrily on high as, after a trying period of four press conferences a week for the Bernabeu boss, hours and hours of provoking, probing and pressing finally brought some decent results – not only did Mourinho completely lose his rag, he also found it again and then set it on fire…

LLL’s buildup to the embedded video of Mourinho going “quite mad” continues with some context:

One habit of the Spanish press that clearly seems to rile The Special One is boldly predicting the line-up of his teams ahead of each game. Over the summer he listed the eleven names that would start a friendly clash against Standard Liege to the hacks noting tartly that “this time you’ll get it right.”

Monday’s editions of Marca and AS were full of predictions that Pedro León was to be the great change to the Real Madrid side to face Auxerre along with Karim Benzema starting in place of Gonzalo Higuaín. However, hours later the Real Madrid squad that was heading to France was announced and it did not contain the former Getafe man.

Later that evening at the press conference, the journalists asked the perfectly legitimate question of why Pedro León had been left out. The reply saw Mourinho go quite mad.

Well, judge for yourself if Mourinho in fact gets mad as hell–the 1min clip is worth watching, if only for some Spanish comprehension practice (since Mourinho is not a native Spanish speaker, he doesn’t speak so fast as to be incomprehensible to non-native speakers such as ourselves):

Let’s crowdsource a translation, shall we? LLL helpfully translates the funniest part of Mourinho’s “outburst”:

“I don’t have to justify the absence of Pedro León to you!” jeered José, claiming the only person he ever had to give explanations to was Florentino Pérez. “You’re all talking about Pedro León as if he were Zidane or Maradona…it was just a couple of days ago that he was playing for Getafe,” Mourinho reasoned in a way certain to boost the confidence and self esteem of his player.

Helpful is the Marca.com article on this Monday Mourinho presser–“Mou: ‘Pedro León no está convocado porque yo no quiero’ “–which consists primarily of Mourinho quotes from that clip transcribed by the Marca reporter:

“Me parece normal hablar de los que están, en lugar de los que no están”. “La especulación es la profesión de los periodistas. Por eso esto me parece que es un problema para la prensa. De un modo muy pragmático y objetivo digo que no está convocado porque el entrenador no ha querido”.

Aún así los periodistas siguieron intentando rascar y Mou acabó por entrar al trapo. “No tengo que justificarme. Si Florentino Pérez me viene a preguntar por qué Pedro León no ha sido convocado tengo que responderle, pero él no me ha preguntado. Habláis de Pedro como Zidane, Di Stéfano o Maradona y es un buen jugador que hace dos días jugaba en el Getafe“, continuó.

“No ha sido convocado para un partido y parece que habláis de un grande. Si trabaja como me gusta a mí, es más fácil que juegue, si no es más difícil. Solo puedo jugar con once, Benzema y diez más. Si fuese periodista deportivo mi primera pregunta sería quién juega mañana, pero antes de saber si siento a Higuaín solo habláis de Pedro León“, manifestó.