Article: YES,I'D TELL A PORKIE TO SAVE MY YORKIE! A fellow Yorkshire terrier owner admits to a sneaking sympathy for soccer boss Jose Mourinho and his over-pampered pooch . . .

Byline: ANTHONY DANIELS

EVERYONE hates bullying bureaucracy and officialdom. So we may have a sneaking sympathy for Jose Mourinho, who was arrested last week after police officers in London tried to take away his Yorkshire terrier because they suspected it had not been vaccinated against rabies.

Every pet owner also loves their own dog, and so the prospect of the Chelsea football manager's beloved Yorkie spending at least six months in quarantine must have struck a painful chord with many of us.

As it happens, I have a very welltravelled Yorkshire terrier who goes back and forth to France with me. (Aer Lingus don't carry dogs on European routes these days so the ...

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