Season 6 (BetFair) Plus Mario Rosenstock Extras
At the end of Season 5 (2010-11 season) we saw Jose going "all-in" on Manchester United to beat Barcelona in the Champions League Final and that he would not be back unless Mr Alex's men were victorious. Barcelona did win and the show has never been on the BBC or any other channel since. That was until the late spring of 2013 when online bookmakers BetFair produced a short series of videos featuring Special 1 TV on their own YouTube channel. Many of the old favourites were back (even Sven!) and the premise of these shows revolved around where Jose would be turning up as the next manager.
Having just left Real Madrid, it was inevitable that he was heading back to England. But would it be to his stomping ground of Chelsea or could he be the natural successor to Mr Alex at Old Trafford? Alternatively was it all a ruse and was he really staying in Spain, going back to Italy or somewhere else completely new? So when these shows were produced - nobody actually knew and that was in part what they circled around. Even though he did re-join Chelsea, Betfair never did order a full season and the five videos that came out proved to be all of them sadly and he has never appeared again since.
Having just left Real Madrid, it was inevitable that he was heading back to England. But would it be to his stomping ground of Chelsea or could he be the natural successor to Mr Alex at Old Trafford? Alternatively was it all a ruse and was he really staying in Spain, going back to Italy or somewhere else completely new? So when these shows were produced - nobody actually knew and that was in part what they circled around. Even though he did re-join Chelsea, Betfair never did order a full season and the five videos that came out proved to be all of them sadly and he has never appeared again since.
Introducing the man Mario
You have heard him throughout all of these Special 1 TV videos without actually seeing him. Below are a few videos featuring Mario Rosenstock in which he does indeed reminiss over some of the characters that we have got to know that he has created on the show.
In the first video, Mario talks about talking to the real Jose! This was to set up the private show for the team on the back of the success of the first "Jose and the techni-colour overcoat" video prior to season 1.
You have heard him throughout all of these Special 1 TV videos without actually seeing him. Below are a few videos featuring Mario Rosenstock in which he does indeed reminiss over some of the characters that we have got to know that he has created on the show.
In the first video, Mario talks about talking to the real Jose! This was to set up the private show for the team on the back of the success of the first "Jose and the techni-colour overcoat" video prior to season 1.
In this second video - Mario talks about getting to know Roy Keane, how terrified he was and making Roy laugh!
In this third video, Mario appears live on stage in character as Jose! Too bad the audio is not a little bit clearer.
Mario (as Jose) predicting the Irish budget in the same style as he conducts a regular pre-match interview.