Brighton’s trip to Getafe is like visiting the dentist with dark arts and controversial boss making rivals’ ‘blood boil’

THEY say in Spain that facing Getafe is like a trip to the dentist. And that will please nobody more than their controversial manager Jose Bordalas. For eight years, across two spells at the Madrid club, Bordalas has worked miracles on a shoestring budget, nurturing teams everybody hates to play. Not by transforming his run-of-the-mill LaLiga players into world beaters, but by coaching them to suffocate, contain and frustrate. There is no tiki-taka or total football from a Bordalas team. His philosophy is built on the dark arts.