LONDON: Jose Mourinho has bucked the trend that decreed the league leaders at Christmas rarely win the title so he will be keen to complete the reeling in of Manchester United during the four-match holiday programme.
In the nine years before Mourinho’s 2004 arrival at Chelsea only once, when Manchester United triumphed in 2000/01, did the leaders by Christmas Day go on to take the title.
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