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PHIL MICKELSON

This column likes the big leftie for reasons other than that he won us £25 at the US Masters in 2004 (when the fun stops, stop, and all that) — but he was daft to tweet of his prowess with a rifle in the run-up to the Ryder Cup. America’s issues with gun crime are such that anyone with influence should think twice before picking one up in public.

MAURICIO POCHETTINO

The Tottenham manager says his players need more ‘respect’ after he was quizzed about his selection in Milan. Recently Jose Mourinho demanded the same thing, and David de Gea said people who had criticised his performances at the World Cup were ‘stupid’. Respect? It seems the only people who need to be shown a little more are those asking the questions.

THE PLANE BANNER

Sticking with Manchester United, strange how we haven’t seen the banner criticising Ed Woodward now the team are winning again. If the executive vice-chairman (above) is only hopeless when Mourinho’s team are losing, then he is clearly more influential than even he would have imagined.