Villas-Boas looking like football's Frank Spencer

Published Feb 23 2012 by Telegraph

Villas-Boas looking like football's Frank Spencer

Remember Jose Mourinhos coat? When he first arrived in England, his swishy greatcoat was taken as symptomatic of his style. Newspaper fashion writers swooned over his wardrobe choices. The clothes, apparently, made the man. And the man they made was one of substance, of...

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