Tony Adams on the managerial lessons learned from Jose Mourinho

During his quarter-of-a-century career as a footballer, Tony Adams won a string of trophies, capained his country and has even seen himself immortalised with a statue outside of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. After hanging up his boots in 2002, the former centre-back saw his future as a manager, but he quickly discovered that success on the pitch does not necessarily translate to success off it. One man who was quick to point this out to Adams was Jose Mourinho , whose managerial success came after he spent years studying the profession, with the Portuguese handing the former Gunners skipper a blunt…