Fans of other Premier League clubs must have been laughing gleefully in the first 10 minutes of the Manchester United v Newcastle, but Mourinho’s men rallied and came out to win the game.
After goals from Kenedy and Yoshi Muto put Manchester United on the brink, goals from Mata, Martial and Alexis Sanchez brought Manchester United back into the game and won it for them.
And when Mourinho faced the media, he was in a confrontational mood saying: “As a friend of mine was saying to me this morning: if tomorrow it is raining in London it is my fault,”
“If there is some difficulty to have the agreement of Brexit, it is my fault. And I have to be ready for this.
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“I think a lot of wickedness and a clear man-hunting which I think in football is too much.
“It is a life I love, it is the life I worked for since I was a kid and I will love this until my last day. It is one more thing in my life.”
Mourinho said that the backlash from the media has been so much that it has affected some of the younger players including Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay.
Mourinho added: “I am 55 years old and spite of this, this is the first time in football I see a manhunt,
“I can cope with it and I can live with it. I think some of the boys, they are not the man that is hunted, they are not coping well with it.
“Some of boys, Marcus Rashford was sad on the pitch, Scott McTominay was scared on the pitch. Even all the players commit mistakes that are not normal.”
Manchester United now have an international break to recharge before diving right back into what is likely to be a hectic season.