Tommy Martin: Remarkable Jose still has stamina for outrage and grenades

From this distance you can only chuckle at the sight of Jose Mourinho still banging away after all these years.

Fenerbahce's Portoguese head coach Jose Mourinho gestures during the Turkish Super lig football match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahceat at the Ali Samiyen Sport Complext stadium in Istanbul. Pic: OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images 

When you are writing a weekly sports column it helps to have subjects you can come back to again and again, old staples that will fill a page when inspiration fails and wordcount remains stubbornly low.

Manchester United being rubbish; Saudi Arabia doing something dastardly; anything involving Rory McIlroy or Roy Keane; the GAA losing its soul; rugby fans drinking pints at the Aviva Stadium; FAI bashing; UEFA bashing; FIFA bashing – there’s generally a few hundred words of bluster on any given week to be gotten out of these.