MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho has strongly rebuked England manager Gareth Southgate and his medical staff for playing Manchester United defender Phil Jones in a recent friendly after he received six pain-killing injections. Mourinho said the injury would prevent Jones from playing against Newcastle United on Saturday and suggested rival clubs had withdrawn their players from international duty under false pretences. “I expect that every player who was injured last week is not playing,” the United manager told reporters on Friday. “If a player was injured Tuesday and the player is ready to play tomorrow, there is something that is going wrong. “Between the warm-up and the start of the match he had five more local injections to play the friendly.

Source: New Strait Times November 18, 2017 00:45 UTC