Browsing: Jose Mourinho

Following the Blues’ 3-1 defeat to Southampton on October 3, Mourinho launched a seven-minute rant during a television interview, when he claimed that match officials were “afraid” to give decisions to his side

It was alleged his remarks constituted improper conduct in that they alleged and/or implied bias on the part of a match official or match officials and/or brought the game into disrepute

The West London outfit are defending champions, but they look far from winners at the moment having won just twice in seven league games, which has left them languishing in 14th place in the table, eight points adrift of current leaders, Manchester United

It took just two minutes for Porto’s Yacine Brahimi to force an early save out of Asmir Begovic in the Chelsea goal, but up the other end, Cesc Fabregas saw Iker Casillas react sharply to push his strike past the post

“There is no new generation of managers,” Mourinho told the Sunday Times. “What it is, is people who got some idea, some philosophy, and want to create something like, ‘we build very well from the back, we have a very good ball possession, we don’t play counter-attack’