They are not familiar with losing and the experience hurts, which is probably where the similarities begin and end for José Mourinho and Rob Page, the Northampton Town manager. When Manchester United arrive at Sixfields Stadium tomorrow night, they will encounter a side still smarting from the blunt conclusion to a long unbeaten run but everything has a context and theirs is an understanding of what discomfort truly feels like. Mourinho’s team have lost three successive matches in all competitions. Page’s were beaten by Chesterfield on Saturday, bringing to an end a sequence of 31 league games without defeat, a…

Source: The Times September 19, 2016 22:58 UTC