Jose\u2019s counterpart accused the South Korean of conning the referee in Manchester United\u2019s 3-1 win over Spurs
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\nLONDON
\nTottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho rounded on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his counterpart accused forward Son Heung-min of conning the referee in Manchester United\u2019s 3-1 Premier League victory on Sunday.
\nSouth Korean Son went down clutching his face after being accidentally caught by the hand of Scott McTominay in the build-up to an Edinson Cavani goal that was controversially ruled out after a VAR check in north London.
\nWith Son in apparent agony on the ground, United\u2019s Paul Pogba played in Cavani who thought he had given his side a 34th-minute lead, only for VAR to intervene and referee Chris Kavanagh ruling it out after checking a monitor.
\n\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his 10 mates to help him up, he won\u2019t get any food,\u201d Solskjaer said of the incident.
\n\u201cWe weren\u2019t conned, the referee was.\u201d
\nSon gave Tottenham the lead shortly after Cavani\u2019s disallowed goal, but United hit back strongly after the break. Goals by Fred, Cavani and Mason Greenwood moved second-placed United 11 points behind leaders Manchester City and nine points clear of fifth-placed Chelsea.
\n\u201cTop reaction, we played some great stuff second half. We felt the injustice and we showed good character to come back,\u201d Solskjaer said.
\nAfter Tottenham\u2019s 10th league defeat of the season put a huge dent in their top-four ambitions, Mourinho bizarrely chose to vent his frustration at Solskjaer, the man who replaced him in the Old Trafford hot seat.
\n\u201cFirst of all, let me tell you something. I\u2019m very, very surprised that after the comments that Ole made on Sonny, you don\u2019t ask me about it,\u201d Mourinho told reporters.
\n\u201cIf it\u2019s me, telling that player A, B or C from another club, if it was my son I wouldn\u2019t give him dinner tonight, what would be the reaction of that? It\u2019s very, very sad.
\n\u201cIn relation to that, I just want to say that Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. I am a father. I think as a father you have always to feed your kids.
\n\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids, you steal. I\u2019m very, very disappointed.\u201d
\nTottenham have now conceded 18 points from winning positions this season and with seven games remaining are in seventh spot, six points behind fourth-placed West Ham United.
\nReminded of that damaging statistic, Mourinho said: \u201cIt\u2019s a compliment to me in the way we start matches, the way we are organised. Then what happens during matches to lose points from winning positions is one of the situations I am not comfortable with talking to the media anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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