Jose Mourinho now comes under the microscope

The good news for Jose Mourinho is that he can concentrate all his energies on winning the Premier League title now that Chelsea are out of the Champions League.

The bad news is that if he lets the domestic title slip away again, and ends the season with only the Capital One Cup to show Roman Abramovich as the spoils of another expensive campaign, he will start to be on shaky ground.

Before, during and after Chelsea’s ignominious European exit to Paris Saint Germain, Mourinho bore the hallmarks of a worried man, and understandably so, given his long-term future in his dream job is at stake.