The story that Jose Mourinho will often tell to illustrate the cruelty of life as a manager is the one about his late father Jose Felix, once in the same business, albeit much less celebrated, and sacked with a phone call during the family dinner on Christmas Day.
There has been a recurring theme of bad news around Christmas in the Mourinho story, sacked by Chelsea on Dec 15, 2015 and the same at Manchester United three years and one day later. So much has happened since, so many buffet breakfasts at the Lowry hotel and as the longest check-out in the recent history of the Manchester-Salford hospitality industry is concluded, the question begs itself: what happened to Mourinho?
