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Alasdair Gold

Mourinho asked again if Son will be fit for Sunday and makes claim about his time at Man United

Jose Mourinho remains unsure over whether he will be able to call upon Son Heung-min to face Manchester United on Sunday.

Tottenham Hotspur's South Korean star suffered a hamstring injury in the first half of the draw against Newcastle United last weekend.

He has missed Spurs' two games since in the Carabao Cup and Europa League.

While Mourinho stated that Son would be out for a while, those initial fears over his recovery period have been allayed and he could be in contention for the trip to Old Trafford, although the Portuguese believed on Wednesday that he was still a big doubt.

He was asked again on Thursday night for the latest on the attacker's fitness.

"I don't want to lie to you and say he doesn't play and Sunday he's there," he said. "At the same time I don't want to say he plays and then he doesn't. So let's wait and see, in this moment, I honestly don't know."

Spurs' crazy run of four matches in seven days ends on Sunday with the trip to Manchester ahead of the international break.

Mourinho said he's run out of moans after the scheduling chaos of this week.

"I am used to it. It's the last one, the last match. I don't want to moan. I moaned enough and I moaned with real things on my hands and I don't think anyone disagreed with me, even when I was moaning about the situation," he said.

"But now is only one more match, only the United match. But no excuses. They had only one match for the week and it was yesterday and probably the majority of the players who played are not going to play Sunday, but I want to forget that. We go there and we go there to discuss the game."

The Portuguese was asked whether he would be going to Old Trafford looking for revenge, a word which did not sit well with him.

"What's that? Revenge? I won so many times at Old Trafford as Manchester United coach and as an opponent coach," he snapped back.

"Revenge for what? Nobody treated me badly there, everyone was so nice to me, I don't have enemies there, I don't have bad feelings. Revenge for what? It's just a football match I want to win."

Thursday night's victory over Maccabi Haifa also brought two more controversial handball decisions, with both sides awarded penalties for instances where the players' arms were down and were hit by the ball.

Matt Doherty was the victim of another unfortunate decision, having had the same at Southampton, and Mourinho is not a fan of the new change to the rule.

"I don't like subjectivity in football because subjectivity normally goes to a certain side," said the Spurs boss.

"I don't like subjectivity. To be honest, the emails sent making comments about the previous penalties and about the subjectivity coming, I didn't read them. I'm not interested in reading them. I prefer not to."

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