If these are the last months of Jose Mourinho in English football, they will have been atypical.
Of course, the conflict and the preening, the displays for TV cameras at training and the staged outrage of press conferences are all par for the course. That was Mourinho's default from the moment he arrived at Chelsea and swept us all away.
But the football? That's a wholly different matter. HIs teams were never like this; supine, incoherent and timid. That awful period at Chelsea in 2015 was like this; his players a shadow of the team that had won the title.