Few turn to Jose Mourinho for a sympathetic shoulder to cry upon. Or not the caricature of Mourinho anyway. But Edin Terzic is the emotional manager of an emotional club and he had already shed a tear on the Wembley turf before he found himself next to a man who knows what it is like to win the Champions League – twice, the Special One may point out – and he buried his head in a designer suit. “I won’t forget this moment, it showed what a big coach and person and character he is,” Terzic said.
Mourinho ended his night as a therapist. He had started his night as the pantomime villain, booed by the Borussia Dortmund fans when he appeared on the big screen at Wembley, just as they cheered Jurgen Klopp. But Mourinho’s shtick is that he is a winner. For Klopp, who knows what it is like to lose Champions League finals to Real Madrid and to lose one at Wembley, this was three past nights rolled into one. It was the sense of being so near and yet so far.
