2. Tito Vilanova
As tense and bitter as the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been, Jose Mourinho brought it to its most extreme and fraught division of the modern era.
Each El Clasico appeared to be more battle than football match, with Mourinho wearing down Guardiola so much that his hair disappeared entirely within their three year spell in the same country.
Tito Vilanova, Guardiola’s assistant coach at Barca, was poked in the eye by Mourinho in a touchline scuffle, which journalists naturally queried the then Real Madrid coach about.
Mourinho responded that he did not know who “Pito” Vilanova was, but the fact that Pito is a slang word for penis in Spanish suggests that he was in fact being hilarious.
Poking your peer in the eye and calling him a phallic name is playground stuff really, and one might have thought Mourinho would know better.
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