- This is symbolic imagery.
You could be excused for missing the fact that Inter and Palermo played a 5-3 match at the San Siro last night. I mean, who expects a Serie A match on a Thursday? The Nerazzurri were up 4-0 at the half, and barely managed to hold on for the win, displeasing The Special One greatly with their lackluster 2nd half effort. However, he was positively giddy after Samuel Eto’o scored in the 43rd minute – so giddy, in fact, that he demonstrated how much he wanted to ride the white horse (side note: anyone who tells you that “white horse” refers to cocaine, rather than heroin, is an idiot).
I mean, the ball goes in and Mourinho makes a motion as if shooting something into his veins. WTF is going on at the San Siro? Is the physio giving the club a little something extra? Is he aware that heroin is a depressant for the central nervous system? And why would Mourinho advertise the fact? Well, he was just mimicking his star striker.
That’s Eto’, after scoring against ManU in the Champions League final in May, with the same celebration (almost) – slapping at his veins like a fiend. But it turns out that there is a reasonable explanation. Apparently Eto’o received a message from his father that morning:
“He summed up his life to me, everything they had fought for … when I read it I felt like fighting the world and the world for me was Manchester United. When I scored I touched my arm to say that his blood was my blood.”
If you look closely at the video of the CL goal, you can see Eto’o scream “PAPA” at the 1:04 mark.
So, maybe they don’t like smack at Inter. But I’m still convinced that The Special One is on something.
Special Sauce perhaps?
“That’s right. White Lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.”
That is seriously bizarre behavior even for Jose.
Fun fact: The Deftones named their album “White Pony” because they thought it meant cocaine.
Fun Fact: I blew out my knee crowd surfing at a deftones concert when I was 17. thankfully soccer season had ended the week before in humilating fashion.
On topic though…I remember watching that live and thinking to myself “what the fuck is he doing?” Also, the more you see that play, the worse the defending and goal keeping looks. And I still love Henry’s celebration in the net as if he had something to do with the goal.
Maybe that was the shot in the heart to finish the other team off?
It’s squeaky bum time if you call using coke “riding the white horse”
Jose Mourinho is on Jose Mourinho, natch.