5 greatest El Clasico moments in recent history

3. Mourinho, Vilanova and the eye-poke

Jose Mourinho pokes Tito Vilanova in the eye.

With Jose Mourinho, you know you are going to get polarising views. However, neither loyalists nor detractors of the Portuguese manager would have been able to find reason for his actions during a Spanish Super Cup game against Barcelona in 2011, when he poked then-Barcelona assistant manager Tito Vilanova in the eye while a scuffle ensued between the players of both clubs.

He then decided to make faces towards the Barcelona camp, and after the match claimed that he had no idea who Vilanova was.

Mourinho later came out and issued a formal apology to Vilanova, saying: “I should not have done what I did, obviously not. The person who messed up there was me.”