JOSE MOURINHO was brutally compared to truth Tinkerman and US President Donald Trump after Manchester United edged past Hull into the EFL Cup final despite a 2-1 defeat.
The United boss, sporting a ‘war’ crew-cut, saw his side lose to Hull but seal a Wembley date with Southampton but it was the post-match, post-truth comments that caused an even bigger shock with the birthday boy denying the very existence of Hull’s first goal.
Paul Pogba’s goal clinched a 3-2 aggregate win but angry Mourinho insisted it was really 1-1 on the night due to Hull’s controversial penalty that he has decided did not count – much like the thousands of people who watched Barack Obama’s inauguration, according to his truth-bending replacement.
Mourinho said: “We didn’t lose, it was 1-1 tonight. I only saw two goals. I saw Pogba’s goal and their goal was fantastic.”
Defeat ended United’s 17-match run without defeat, but defiant Mourinho added: “I think 18 matches unbeaten is amazing.
“I don’t want to speak about the penalty. I do not want to speak about the performance.”
Tom Huddlestone gave the Tigers a shock 35th-minute lead from the spot after ref Jon Moss adjudged that Marcus Rojo had pushed Harry Maguire.
Pogba put United level with a close-range finish in the 66th minute. But Hull’s Oumar Niasse set up a nervy finale five minutes from time.
The United boss had to bite his lip immediately afterwards — with his TV interview as short as his new haircut.
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In a 33-second reply, Mourinho said: “I just want to say congratulations to my players. It was a difficult road to be in the final and we are there.
“I don’t know want to say anything else. It is enough. I am calm. I behaved on the bench. No sending off. No punishment. No more words.”
Mourinho has history for bending the truth dating way back to 2005 when Trump was far busier making grotesque ‘locker-room comments’ about women and starring in American soaps.
The Special One refused to accept Luis Garcia’s Liverpool 'ghost goal' was given against his old Chelsea side in the fourth minute of their 2005 Champions League semi-final.
He said: “The linesman scored the goal. No-one knows if that shot went over the line and you must be 100 per cent.
“It was a goal that came from the moon – from the Anfield stands.”
In that same troubling year for Trump and Mourinho, the hard-headed former Real Madrid and Inter Milan boss also discounted Charlton's League Cup win over his side as it had come in a penalty shoot-out and not inside a 90-minute match.
He said: “I want to give my congratulations to them because they won.
"But we were the best team. We didn’t lose the game.
"Ninety minutes was a draw and it was a draw after two hours. We lost on penalties.”
From one deluded fool (Trump) to another (Mourinho). Apparently last nights game v Hull was 1-1 as he only saw 2 goals & still unbeaten
— Vass Koni (@vkon1) January 27, 2017
A journalism lecturer has gone further and has analysed the way Trump and Mourinho try to manipulate the media.
Martin Smith of Sheffield Hallam University writes on The Conversation: “What Trump and Mourinho share is an arrogance and self-belief that their words are not mere language like the utterances of others.
“There are tactical similarities between Trump and Mourinho: politics and football management attract messiah types with total self-belief – and they both instinctively know how to deflect blame and turn defence into attack.
“They appear to be sharing a media-management playbook. And they make for irresistible copy, if you are a journalist.”
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