From eggs and omelettes to lawyers

Jose loves his analogies and we were treated to another cracker with Martin Atkinson’s consistently poor performances compared to a lawyer – a very bad lawyer.

Mourinho reasoned:’You want consistency in the right way; not in the wrong way. If you have a lawyer who is consistent, but he has lost 15 out of 15 cases, you do not want that lawyer. That is not good consistency.’

He also managed to point out that it was not just his men who were hard done by after an Atkinson special, adding: ‘He clearly made mistakes in the Everton-Liverpool game, and he made mistakes yesterday.’