Jose Mourinho joined leading figures from football and the media to pay tribute to one of the most significant sports journalists of his generation, former Mail on Sunday reporter Simon Greenberg, who died last week at 52 after a short illness.
Roma manager Mourinho saluted the man who paved the way for modern sports news reporting with a string of exclusives and award-winning stories at this newspaper in the Nineties.
Mourinho, who became close to Greenberg during his time as communications director at Chelsea, said: 'Simon was my shadow, my friend and a man of trust during my first spell at Chelsea.