He would have heard the noise from his penthouse at The Lowry. The muffled explosion from across town. Technically, Jose Mourinho resides in Salford. He's that side of the River Irwell, on the bank that looks across to the centre of town.
Yet he's a Manchester man, in essence. He walks, paparazzi permitting, across the Trinity Bridge to his favourite city centre restaurants. The view through his window is of Britain's second city.
Sir Alex Ferguson lived in Cheshire's golden triangle; so do most of the players at the Manchester clubs. But Mourinho is embedded in the urban centre.