Sunday People

YOU CAN’T TALK, JOSE

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shots of ‘Skittle vodka’ to relax him and get him back in t he old routine...

For life didn’t stop the moment he signed his new megabucks contract. When clubs such as Leicester agree these deals, they are protecting a future return.

Goalscorer­s earn the big money. But they have to deliver. It’s the law of the jungle.

Harry Kane’s breakthrou­gh season at Spurs was every bit as sensationa­l as Vardy’s. But there is an argument that his second campaign at White Hart Lane was even better because the pressure was on.

Vardy’s got all the gear. The big contract, the Bentley, the stage, the national and internatio­nal recognitio­n.

But unless he starts living up to the billing, he will be written off as a oneseason wonder.

Of course, the sequel is rarely as good as the original. But at the moment, Leicester’s striker is in danger of disappeari­ng down the plughole with his team.

His story is only half-written. And he needs now to concentrat­e on a fitting ending.g JOSE MOURINHO says the rules are different for him after Jurgen Klopp eyeballed a fourth official and Arsene Wenger shoved one in the tunnel at the Emirates a couple of weeks ago.

Taken in isolation, he’s absolutely right, the punishment­s were weighed against him.

But what Mourinho (right) fails to acknowledg­e is that his rap sheet is as long as his arm.

Nothing the authoritie­s have done since 2004 has altered his behaviour. So, they come down heavy.

Wenger isn’t whiter than white, but he’s been here 20 years. Klopp barely two – although his “passion” needs to be channelled anywhere other than in the fourth official’s face.

If Mourinho could keep his nose clean for a couple of seasons, then his complaints would carry weight.

Until then, Jose, mind it.

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