José Mourinho was talking earlier in the week about the notion of dynastic success in English football. With his Chelsea team having all but secured the Premier League title, it was one of those issues that felt legitimate to raise. Could the west London club go on to dominate for the next couple of seasons? Mourinho stonewalled. No chance, was the Chelsea manager’s short answer. The longer one took in several fundamental points, chief among them the fact that unlike, say, Germany, Switzerland or Scotland, Mourinho said, there was no lone domestic powerhouse in England, rather a handful of dangerous contenders, each intent on slitting the throat of their rivals. “It is even more...
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