Maddie’s-not-Moroccan shock
Seeing Madeleine everywhere and 'mourning' Mourhino - read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London).
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Tuesday 25 September:
‘Where’s the funeral? The over-reaction to the departure of the Chelsea boss José Mourinho looked more like mourning a death in the family. Bill Shankly said that football wasn’t a matter of life and death, it was more important than that – but he was joking. Some seemed to take him seriously last week…’
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