Results, fallouts and ‘rat’ hunts: The familiar steps that make up a Jose Mourinho end game

When word of Jose Mourinho’s latest putdown reached the Tottenham Hotspur dressing room – “same coach, different players” – some of the squad couldn’t quite believe it. It created even more unease, more grounds for complaint.Some have likened it to the reaction in the Real Madrid dressing room, when there was a similar comment after a 2012-13 defeat to Real Betis. “When we win, we all win – and some more than others,” Mourinho said at the time. “And when we lose, the coach loses.”The Madrid squad were shocked then, given they had followed Mourinho's own media instructions, but it...