What has been remarkable about the fourth coming of José Mourinho in English football is how quickly he has played the hits.
He arrived at Tottenham as a changed man, again. This time he was humbler, happier, calmer than ever before. There was a brief upturn in results, then the wider problems at the club began to drag performances down again. And now, already, two months in to his reign, we’re seeing all the familiar favorites: the shrugging, the rolling of eyes, the lineups so defensive they can only have been selected to make a point, the criticism of a player for his injury record, the mysterious blanking of a young forward.