4,500 climate-change deaths
TEARFUL Spurs boss Jose Mourinho revealed on live TV that his dog had died on Christmas Day.
Asked by presenter
Jim Rosenthal how his Christmas went, Mourinho replied: “It was very sad because my dog died and my dog is my family. So very difficult. Still, we have to move on.”
The Tottenham boss was giving an interview before Spurs’ Boxing Day match against Brighton, which Mourinho’s team went on to win 2-1, when he revealed the news about Yorkshire terrier Leya.
Mourinho’s beloved pet has hit head
EXTREME weather related to the climate crisis hit every populated continent in 2019, killing more than 4,500 people.
Christian Aid’s Counting the Cost report lists 15 climate change-related weather disasters including floods in northern India that killed 1,900. Also studied was Cyclone lines before, in 2007. Police and an animal welfare officer went to the thenChelsea manager’s Central London home after reports that quarantine laws had been breached.
It was suspected that Leya had been taken to Portugal, then brought back to Britain, without undergoing quarantine.
Mourinho was arrested and cautioned for obstruction after the dog disappeared.
A solicitor for Jose’s wife Matilde said the dog had gone back to Portugal with her “with the full knowledge and assistance of the UK animal health and welfare authorities”.
Jose & Matilde with Leya in 2013
Idai, which killed 1,300 in Africa, and the wildfires in California thought to have cost $25billion. The global death toll was 4,572.
Climatologist Professor Michael Mann, of Pennsylvania State University, said: “With each day now we are seemingly reminded of the cost of climate inaction.”