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Any Porto in a storm: How Mourinho caused Casillas' Madrid downfall

The two foes face off on Tuesday as the legendary keeper takes on the man who first put a target on his back and started the events that would end his 25-year stay at the Bernabeu

There is a certain twisted irony that Jose Mourinho and Iker Casillas should be reunited at a ground that gave birth to ‘the Special One’, and which now serves as the graveyard for one of his great opposers. The Spanish goalkeeping icon is now playing out the final days of his career at Porto, in the shadow of the man who began his downfall.