Park the bus!

[bigpalacios]

There are many idiomatic phrases used in the english game and "Park the bus" seems to be used quite alot but I was just wondering did Mourinho bring this to the prem with him when we drew 0-0 with Chelsea.

 

[chrissivad]

been around a lot longer than before Mourinho

looks like it wasn't around before then in the PL.... i thought it was

 

[bigpalacios]

been around a lot longer than before Mourinho

I just remember him saying it was a phrase from his country and now it seems to be said all the time:shrug:

 

[RichieS]

I'm pretty certain it was coined by Mourinho after our 0-0 with Chelsea. I seem to recall the press finding it pretty funny.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Mourinho introduced it, yep.

 

[Kendall]

It's funny that we absolutely hammer teams as 'anti football' and criticise the parking of the bus when they do it to us and it was in fact us that prompted the phrase from Mourinho :lol:

 

[mike_l]

Easy to forget the Santini "era" sometimes, I wonder how things would have turned out had he stayed around for a full season at least...