Foot & Soccer Soccer Match Reports, Football News 
April 4 – Whenever Turkish giants, and hated rivals, Fenerbahce meet Galatasaray, sparks are sure to fly, especially when the ‘Special One’, Jose Mourinho, is involved.
Late in their Turkish Cup match, a mass scuffle broke out amongst the players, which resulted in three red cards. Galatasaray’s, Baris Alper Yilmaz and Kerem Demirbay were dismissed along with Fenerbahce’s Mert Hakan Yandas, but the star of the show, as always, was Mourinho.
Video footage appeared to show Mourinho pinching the nose of his opposite number, Okan Buruk, at the final whistle as players were pushing and shoving. Buruk, theatrically fell to the floor as the Portuguese manager was dragged away by his staff.
Galatasaray’s vice-presiden, Metin Ozturk, said that after both managers had spoken to the match officials, “Mourinho first verbally and then physically attacked [Buruk] … Where else in the world can he do this? What does he think of Turkey? I believe that Fenerbahce’s management will impose the necessary sanction before the federation does.”
In his post-game press conference, Buruk tried to play down the incident, although he thought it was “not a classy move”. He said: “There was nothing between me and Mourinho. He pinched my nose from behind. There was a slight scratch. Of course, it wasn’t a very nice or elegant thing to do. We expect managers to behave more appropriately in such situations. I won’t exaggerate this issue, but it wasn’t a classy move.”
Mourinho does have some previous experience when it comes to attacking rival managers. In 2011, while he was at Real Madrid, the rivalry with FC Barcelona was at its nastiest, and during a row, he poked Barca assistant Tito Vilanova in the eye.
He was handed a two-match ban, which was ultimately lifted as part of a wider amnesty on suspensions in 2012.
There is no word yet on what punishment the Turkish Football Association will hand to Mourinho, however his time in Turkey has been mired by one controversy after another, and it’s hard to see him staying in Istanbul once the season concludes.
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