JOSE's 200th and he has been "AROUND A BIT"!

On this day in 2020, Jose Mourinho recorded his 200th Premier League win, as a manager, with a victory for Tottenham Hotspur 1 v Everton 0.

Jose became just the fifth Premier League manager to reach the 200 mark in his 326th match. Well done the Portuguese born manager!! An own goal by Michael Keane was the difference as Spurs won 1-0 in a dour clash, to move up to eighth in the league. Jose celebrated his 200th league victory. Defeat would have sent Spurs to the bottom half of the table but in the end, Spurs won fairly comfortably, stretching their unbeaten league run versus Everton to 15 matches. Midfielder Giovani Lo Celso scored his first Premier League goal for Tottenham in the 23rd minute.

Personal information
Full name	José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix
Date of birth	26 January 1963 (age 63)
Place of birth	Setúbal, Portugal
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Real Madrid (head coach)
Youth career
1978-1980	Belenenses
Senior PLAYING career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1982	Rio Ave	0	(0)
1982–1983	Belenenses	0	(0)
1983–1985	Sesimbra	35	(1)
1985–1987	Comércio e Indústria	27	(8)
Total		62	(9)
Managerial career
2000	Benfica
2001–2002	União de Leiria
2002–2004	Porto
2004–2007	Chelsea
2008–2010	Inter Milan
2010–2013	Real Madrid
2013–2015	Chelsea
2016–2018	Manchester United
2019–2021	Tottenham Hotspur
2021–2024	Roma
2024–2025	Fenerbahçe
2025–2026	Benfica
2026–	Real Madrid

  
        

THE HAMMERS FROM 1900

5th July 1900
Turning the clock back to 1900 there was just one London club playing in the Football League - Arsenal, then Woolwich Arsenal. Of the smaller London clubs, the Thames Ironworks club was starting to make a bit of a name for itself. The club was founded in 1895 as the works side of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. The 1897/98 season saw them finish as London League Champions, while they ended in the next season, the 1898/99, as Southern League Second Division champions!! A poor season followed in the Southern League First Division with admin and financial problems seeing the club disband in June 1900. 

Then on 5th July 1900 the club reformed under a new name and took over the place in the Southern League left vacant by Thames Ironworks. The new club retained most of the Ironworks players as well as the old clubs nicknames - The Hammers and the Irons - but the new official club name was to become reasonably well known in years to come....West Ham United!!

The club now plays at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home, the Boleyn Ground, in 2016.

West Ham United was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. It moved to the Boleyn Ground, which remained its home ground for more than a century, in 1904. The team initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the Football League in 1919. The club was promoted to the top flight in 1923, when it was also losing finalist, to Bolton Wanderers in the first FA Cup Final held at Wembley. The aerial photo shows the FA Cup Final "fully" overcrowded at Wembley. AND here is a copy of the historic programme.

In 1940, the club won the inaugural Football League War Cup.

Prior to 1923, the FA Cup Final was staged at seven different locations, with the first being held at the Kennington Oval in 1872. Over the next fifty years, the final would take place across the country at Lillie Bridge, Manchester’s Fallowfield Stadium, Everton’s Goodison Park, The Crystal Palace, Manchester United’s Old Trafford and Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge.

Further one-off replays were held at the Racecourse Ground, Burnden Park and Bramall Lane: the homes of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United respectively.

SALAH AND EGYPT

Egypt coach Hossam Hassan, below,  

has cast doubt on whether Mohamed Salah will ‌start today's World Cup, last-32, showdown with Australia in Dallas as the 34-year-old continues his recovery ​from a hamstring injury. You will probably know he was born on  15th June 1992 in Nagrig Egypt. His salary is 20.8 million GBP (2026) that Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for and captains the Egypt national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest wingers of all time. Salah took some part in training on Wednesday after picking up a hamstring strain in last week's 1-1 draw with Iran, as Egypt collected the point they needed to progress to ‌the World Cup knockout stages for the first time. Salah asked to come off with 33 minutes remaining against Iran and his fight to regain fitness has cast a shadow over his team's preparations for one ‌of the biggest games in their history.

"Salah is a passionate player and he is very much looking forward ​to making his own contribution," the Egypt coach said.

"I'm not going to run any risk unless I'm 100 per cent sure he is fit and raring to go tomorrow.

"We look forward to ​him playing tomorrow, but we're not sure if he's going to ⁠be in the starting line-up."

Salah has scored just ⁠once so far at this World Cup, getting his team's second goal as Egypt bounced back to defeat New Zealand in the group stages.

The Egypt national football team, nicknamed The Pharaohs, represents Egypt in men's international football, and is governed by the Egyptian FA (EFA), the governing body of football in Egypt. Egypt is the oldest and most successful team in the history of African football, having won the African Cup of Nations for a record seven times and reached the final ten times. They won the cup three times consecutively in 2006, 2008, and 2010 (a feat unmatched by any other team). Egypt has also participated in the FIFA World Cup four times, becoming the first African and Middle Eastern team to do so, in the 1934 Edition. In 2010, Egypt reached 9th place in the FIFA World Rankings, marking a massively successful year in which they won the 2010 African Cup of Nations and defeated World Champions Italy in the FIFA Confed Cup.