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Let’s face it, nobody likes losing heavily at home very much. So you can’t blame José Mourinho for being a tad short-tempered in the immediate wake of Manchester United’s 3-0 defeat by Tottenham last night. The Fiver would certainly have had a gob on in his position, you can be sure of that. Even so, the denouement to his sullen performance in the post-match presser, which saw him waving his arms around and hollering “Respect! Respect! Respect!” as he sashayed out of the door, could only have been more spectacular had the PR advisors flanking him burst into a chorus of “sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me” in the soulful call-and-response style. Aretha would have understood the impulse, perhaps stopping just short of giving full approval to the arrangement.

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