Jose Mourinho is a serial winner in every way you could possibly imagine.

He's won every UEFA European competition available for him to win, barring the Super Cup, and has forged a legacy as one of the game's greatest and most successful managers, in an era that has seen him cross ties with some truly elite minds.

In a time where Pep Guardiola's possession-based, passing football is considered the 'right way' to play the game, Mourinho is football's anti-hero. He goes against the grain, but he almost always gets results.

Back the man and he will deliver. That's not an opinion, it's a fact and just one look at his CV supports that claim.

You're either a Mourinho guy or you're not. And if you are, it makes you appreciate his moments of genius and thinking outside of the box that bit more. The man really will do anything it takes to be successful, and has turned football on its head at times in doing so.

He shook the Premier League to its core in the mid-2000s when turning Chelsea into one of the best defensive outfits we'll ever see, shutting out the competition and winning back-to-back Premier Leagues, after arriving from Porto where he'd turned them into Champions League winners.

Things haven't been quite as straightforward in recent years after a rocky end to his tenure at Manchester United and a difficult spell in charge of Tottenham, but Mourinho seems to have gotten his mojo back after returning to Serie A, this time with AS Roma.

Mourinho won the Europa Conference League.

Soccer Football - Europa Conference League - Final - AS Roma v Feyenoord - Arena Kombetare, Tirana, Albania - May 25, 2022 AS Roma coach Jose Mourinho celebrates with the trophy after winning the Europa Conference League REUTERS/Marko Djurica

But it's his time in Madrid that we're looking at right now, when he was in the hot seat for perhaps the biggest club in the world - Real Madrid - and a moment of madness that was also absolutely brilliant.

Footage has done the rounds on Twitter of Mourinho during his time in charge of Real, where he resorted to the book of the dark arts to gain a tactical advantage thinking ahead.

The video, uploaded by @FootballHousery has amassed over 800 retweets and been 'liked' close to 12,000 times. It shows Mourinho in discussions with his colleagues in the 2010/11 season during a Champions League clash with Ajax where they were running away with the game, being ahead in Amsterdam.

Mourinho in a press conference for Real Madrid

LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 06: Coach Jose Mourinho of Real Madrid speaks during a news conference on August 6, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Real Madrid will play Los Angeles Galaxy on August 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, as they continue their pre-season tour of USA. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Realising that Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso were both a booking away from suspension as they advanced into the knockout stages of the Champions League, he came up with a cheeky yet brilliant - tell them both to get sent off so they serve their suspensions sooner, and have a clean slate for the latter stages of the competition.

It's incredible viewing to see it unfold. Check it out below.

WATCH: Mourinho orders his team to get intentional red cards

Absolutely textbook Mourinho. Exploiting loopholes done flawlessly. Almost, anyway - but we'll get to that.

The plan comes from Jerzy Dudek on the bench to Iker Casillas, who then relays the plan to Ramos and Alonso on the pitch. It appears that the plan is for both players to get a second yellow card - and their marching orders as a result - by time wasting.

With Real 4-0 up with mere minutes to go, Alonso dawdles and stalls when taking a free-kick, prompting the referee to send him off for a second yellow card offence. Ramos follows suit minutes later, taking a goal kick for Casillas but delaying it to the point where he is sent off.

Ramos is sent off in 2010

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - NOVEMBER 23: Referee Craig Thomson of Scotland sends off Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid for time wasting during the UEFA Champions League Group G match between AFC Ajax and Real Madrid at the Ajax Arena on November 23, 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

Real still had one more group stage game to play but were qualified for the knockouts, thus Ramos and Alonso were only suspended for a dead rubber contest and now had a much lower risk of suspension in the knockout stages. Genius.

Or at least they thought it was. The plan was far too obvious and as a result, the red cards issued were upheld and a handful of fines were given out; Dudek, Casillas, Ramos, Alonso were hit with one, as were the club. Brilliant thinking, good execution, unfortunate outcome. Maybe next time, Jose.