It's showtime, because love him or loathe him, that's what Jose Mourinho brings. Five-and-a-half years after coaching his last Champions League game -- a 3-0 loss to Leipzig in the round of 16, the heaviest aggregate defeat of his career -- he returns to the fold at the club where he made his first-team coaching debut a quarter century ago: Benfica .

You can talk about homecomings and the return of prodigal sons, but that's slightly misleading. Because by the time he signed for Benfica, in September 2000, he had already worked for two of the other big three Portuguese super clubs, Sporting and Porto, as an assistant to Bobby Robson.

More telling is what actually happened. He was hired by one club president with elections looming and after the president lost the elections two months

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