Jose Mourinho needs a new enemy more than he needs a win tonight

Our new signing from inside the game enjoys the mind games being played by the managers of the Premier League’s top teams as much as the games on the field...

Jose Mourinho needs a new enemy more than he needs a win tonight

When I played football, I liked the little mind games. If I was getting a rough time from a younger player (or even if I wasn’t), I liked to walk off behind him at half-time and slowly pronounce the name on the back of his shirt as if it was an exotic item on a menu that I’d never heard of.

“Am I saying that right? New one on me. Where you from? You up on loan or did you win some sort of competition?”

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