London — Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho can collect the one European trophy he lacks when his side faces Real Madrid in the Uefa Super Cup on Tuesday in his first competitive meeting with the Spanish giants since an acrimonious split in 2013. Mourinho, whose team won the Europa League last season to salvage an otherwise disappointing first campaign under the Portuguese, led Real to the La Liga title with a record 100 points and won a King’s Cup in an eventful stay between 2010 and 2013. His achievements in Madrid were overshadowed, however, by his falling out with key dressingroom figures as well as by confrontations with referees and opponents plus a failure to win the Champions League, as Real lost in the semi-finals each year. Mourinho’s legacy has been upstaged by the Spanish club’s three Champions League triumphs in the four years since his departure, although in a recent interview the Portuguese claimed he had "to beg" the board at Real Madrid to let him leave for Chelsea.<...
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