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The three big issues Jose Mourinho must fix against Valencia to stop Manchester United rot Having overseen Manchester United’s joint-worst start to a Premier League campaign, and crashed out of the Carabao Cup at the hands of lower league opposition, Jose Mourinho’s tenure at the club is quickly hurtling towards make-or-break territory. The deterioration of his relationship with his players has all the hallmarks of classic Mourinho third-season syndrome, while his tactics and formations are increasingly hard to defend. But, as is the way in football, a few days after losing to West Ham he already has another ripe opportunity to win back favour and stop the rot against a Valencia side with just one win this season. But can Mourinho swallow his pride and make the necessary changes?…  BRING BACK BAILLY Arguably Mourinho’s biggest scapegoat during United’s tumultuous start to the new season has been centre-back Eric Bailly. After a summer in which Mourinho made no...

Boy ‘who had sex with teacher in plane toilets’ describes encounter A teenage boy who allegedly had sex with his teacher in the toilet of a plane told a court how she beckoned him into the cubicle. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police in a recorded interview that Eleanor Wilson, 29, began to kiss him and fondle him as they sat at the back of a flight returning to the UK from a school trip overseas. He described how he was drunk, having been drinking the complimentary alcohol, and went to the rear of the plane to use the toilet, and then sat next to Wilson, who denies the allegations. Prosecutors claim that Wilson later told the boy she was pregnant with his child but she would have an abortion. Bristol Crown Court heard their ‘clandestine’ relationship was exposed when another pupil at the unnamed school tried to blackmail Wilson into having sex with him. Virginia Cornwall, prosecuting, told the court: ‘It was the circumstances in which the two ...