JOSE Mourinho has a trophy collection that is the envy of almost every coach. From European Champions League titles to the Community Shield his cupboard must be over-flowing.

But like every good manager Jose is never satisfied so he has set his sights on another prize – the best behaved manager on the touchline.

Now, as far as I know, that doesn’t exist but that hasn’t stopped the Manchester United boss from pitching for it.

“I am fully committed to win the award this season. I am serious,” he told reporters.

It is those final three words that might suggest the one-time Special One is just making more mischief.

If not, then let’s get things right. The as-yet-unnamed trophy would be an award to a manager for NOT berating the fourth official, for NOT behaving like a demented wasp and for NOT poking your finger in the face of a rival coach or NOT stepping on to the pitch to chastise anybody within hearing distance – including his own club doctor. All are on Jose’s record alongside that mountain of trophy successes.

It is true he now sits, unmoved, grim faced and with the air of a man who has accidentally wandered into the wrong seat but is that just an act? Maybe it’s because his expensive list of superstars are doing nothing for anybody to get excited about. Is the real, up-and-at-‘em Mourinho racing along the touchline, screaming and shouting at all and sundry itching to get out.

Or was that the part of his career that was all an act and he really is the quiet, reserved character we are now seeing suffer in silence?

But even in the unlikely event that a “best behaved manager of the season” prize ever warrants its own Awards Night, what makes Jose think he is at the head of the voting list?

Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe and Tottenham’s Mouricio Pochettino are not known for blowing their cool but won’t be expecting a trophy for that.

I suspect this is just another diversionary tactic from the old boy and aimed at Jurgen Klopp, Antonio Conte and maybe Pep Guardiola who just happen to be three of his biggest rivals who are all doing rather well.

Sky pundit Jamie Redknapp used his newspaper column to pose the question: What HAS Jose done to earn his new deal? Perhaps Jose should be concentrating more on that than polishing a non-existent award.

PICTURE, if you will, a list of the most boring spectator sports you can imagine and it’s a fairly safe bet that arm wrestling would be fairly near the top.

Nothing much happens so there’s nothing much to see.

Why is it then that rugby coaches in both codes adopt the phrase to describe any match?

Eddie Jones used it when summarising England’s 12-6 win over Wales. He made it sound as though we should all have switched channels to watch an exciting angling match.

There are far better ways to talk about any rugby match. I suspect Barrow Raiders 8-8 draw with Toronto Wolfpack on Sunday will slot into the “arm wrestle” list.

But it was much, much more than that. It was a memorable effort from a team who had been thrashed by 56-12 only a week earlier.

And it was against a full-time team hotly tipped to go into Super League at the first attempt. Arm wrestle, my arm!

IT is time for me to come clean – I hate this obsession with TMOs, video referees, VAR and whatever next week’s latest technological wizardry will along on the pretext of “improving the game.”

If that makes me a Luddite then so be it but so far where is the evidence that it makes life any easier for spectators, players or the men or women who suffer the most …the poor old referee or umpire?

It happens at almost every Premier League match where the experts are still arguing about a penalty decision or a booking or even a hand ball sometime around midnight on Match of the Day – hours after they have watched the incident enough times to make a full length feature film.

Then we have Rugby Union’s TMO – Television Match Official to give him his fill title – and the England-Wales international on Saturday. They were still complaining about a controversial disallowed try yesterday morning.

It was all about Welsh full-back Gareth Ainscombe’s 24th minute “try” at Twickenham.

“Unfortunately the TMO has made a terrible mistake,” said Wales coach Warren Gatland. “We have looked at it from different angles and you can clearly see him get his hand to the ball. I still can’t understand why that was not a try.”

So – what’s the point of the TMO? If he can’t get it right after half a dozen slow motion replays why can’t the on-field referee make his own decisions – right or wrong?

Cricket goes even further – with projected passage (i.e. guessed) to decide whether a batsman is out leg before wicket. And if that shows that the ball was going to hit the stumps it’s not necessarily out anyway.

Goodness knows that will happen when football’s VAR gets into full swing. It is only to be used for “important decisions.” Who are they kidding? And who is going to decide what’s important?

Television can help – as in goal line technology. But when it comes to an opinion what makes the man in the booth any more equipped to decide than the pundits in the TV studio still arguing over what they have seen hours later?

Super League viewers have got used to matches lasting more than two hours and referees standing two yards from the action pretending they haven’t seen what happened. So, football fans, be careful what you wish for.