Jose Mourinho and Stamford Bridge have a long history. There’s always been a certain idiosyncrasy about Mourinho, and Stamford Bridge has always been part of it.

When Mourinho joined Chelsea in 2004, he inherited a side that had made it all the way to the semi final of the Champions League the season previous - but that was the year he himself won the competition with Porto. A final with Chelsea in 2004 would have been fitting, but it wouldn’t have been at Stamford Bridge. There is just a certain draw to that stadium.

In his first game as Chelsea boss, Mourinho beat Manchester United 1-0. And now he returns to Stamford Bridge for only the second time as an opposition manager - the first was in 2010 with Inter Milan. Mourinho couldn’t win the Champions League with another club without paying King’s Road a visit along the way.

But they say that a picture is worth one thousand words, and when it comes to the story of Mourinho and Stamford Bridge, that is certainly true.

These are the images that paint the picture of the Special One’s relationship with Stamford Bridge so far.

Before the beginning

Jose Mourinho and Andre Villas Boas watch Chelsea v Monaco

That first glance across the room, the first time it caught his eye. Jose Mourinho watches Chelsea lose to Monaco in the semi final of the 2003/04 Champions League - a scouting mission for his own triumph in the competition that year alongside his assistant, Andre Villas-Boas.

The First Game

Jose Mourinho's first game in charge of Chelsea v Man United 2004

Jose Mourinho's very first game at Stamford Bridge was against Manchester United in 2004. This weekend he'll return in the opposite colours.

Champions League heartbreak

Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez in Champions League semi final 2005

A 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge in 2005 gave Chelsea the tough task of having to go to Anfield and win the game in order to progress to the Champions League final. A controversial 1-0 defeat in the return leg was Jose Mourinho's first European heartbreak, having won the UEFA Cup in 2003 and the Champions League in 2004.

The First Time

Jose Mourinho and family celebrate winning the Premier League for the first time

Jose Mourinho and his family celebrate winning Chelsea's first Premier League title on the Stamford Bridge turf - the first of his three Premier League winner's medals.

Two in a row

Mourinho celebrates winning his second title

Mourinho celebrates his second title victory with his Chelsea players - the Portuguese is only the second man to win back to back Premier League titles.

Things go sour

Jose Mourinho's last game

A draw at home to Rosenborg in the Champions League prompted Mourinho's first departure from Chelsea.

Return with Inter Milan

Jose Mourinho defeats Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea with Inter Milan

This weekend isn't Jose Mourinho's first return to Stamford Bridge in charge of another club. In 2010, he led his all-conquering Inter Milan side to a 1-0 victory in West London during a Champions League last 16 clash.

Rekindling the flame

Jose Mourinho's first game back at Chelsea in his second spell

The first game of Mourinho's second spell as Chelsea manager was a 2-0 victory over Hull City at Stamford Bridge.

More European heartbreak

Jose Mourinho and Diego Simeone

Despite massively improving Chelsea in his first season back in charge, Mourinho couldn't win a trophy, suffering yet another heartbreaking Champions League semi final defeat, this time to Atletico Madrid in 2014.

The Third Triumph

Mourinho and the Premier League trophy

Success was to follow the next season, as Chelsea lifted the Premier League once again - Jose Mourinho's third medal, and once again he celebrated on the Stamford Bridge turf.

Fall from Grace

Mourinho v Bournemouth with Chelsea

Chelsea and Mourinho fell from grace the following season, however, as the title victory was short-lived. The Portuguese was the champion of England, but cut a dishevelled figure on the touchline as Chelsea were defeated by Bournemouth as things reached their nadir in Jose Mourinho's last Premier League game at Stamford Bridge.

Swan Song

Jose Mourinho v Porto

That wasn't his final game at the Bridge, though. The last time Mourinho led a team out at Stamford Bridge it was also against a former side: Chelsea beat Porto 2-0 as The Special One's final home game ended in victory.

Forever in their hearts?

Jose Mourinho Chelsea fans one of us

Mourinho and Chelsea has always been a love story - but will that love be cooled when the Chelsea faithful see their old love in the arms of another club?