Mourinho to Miss Stoke Clash As He Refuses To Appeal Stadium Ban

Jose Mourinho has not appealed his Football Association stadium ban and will be forced to watch Chelsea's crucial clash with Stoke City away from the Britannia Stadium on Saturday.

The Portuguese coach had until midday on Friday to lodge an appeal to defer his one-match ban but will now leave his backroom staff to run the show from the sideline in Saturday's 5.30pm kick-off.

Mourinho, who will also have to pay a £40,000 fine, says he will not communicate with his team but confirmed the tactical decisions taken mid-game will be decided in pre-match planning meetings.

Mourinho will be absent for Saturday's clash after being slapped with a one-match stadium ban by the FA

When asked about his decision not to appeal the ban in his Friday press conference, Mourinho made it clear that he thought his prospects of having a successful case were slim.

'The match is tomorrow,' he said. 'I know the result of the appeal already, so I decide to give up.

'I think it's stupid to fight a fight you know you already lose.'

The Portuguese coach will travel with his squad up until the point he is told he can go no further ahead of Saturday's game.

He will watch the clash from the team hotel but could use his mobile phone to contact his coaches on the bench, although he says that will not be the case.

Assistants Rui Faria, Steve Holland and Silvino Louro will be briefed on every possible scenario that Mourinho envisages.

The under-fire manager went on to hint that the decision to hand him a stadium ban could set a precedent with more to follow for bosses who fall out of line in future.

Chelsea boss oversaw his side's win over Dynamo Kiev but will watch the Stoke game away from the ground

'One thing is not to be on the bench. I'm stopped being in a football stadium. I'm stopped being in what I love so much which is football,' he said.

'When I go into the punishment, it opens a range of options. I imagine there will be lots of managers with stadium bans in the future. Bans should be something really serious in terms of aggression, using words I don't want to use. This one is about words, about campaigns.

'It could happen a lot more. Unless we have our association or other associations around Europe to talk about the rights of the managers and having stadium bans as I mentioned. From my point of view, from my side, I want to be out of it. I want to let the game tomorrow finish. That's it.'

The 52-year-old (above in our artist's impression) could to use his mobile phone to contact his coaches

Mourinho was handed the one-match stadium ban and £40,000 fine for comments made to referee Jon Moss at half-time during Chelsea's 2-1 loss at West Ham on October 24.

The Portuguese is understood to have said to Moss: 'Arsene Wenger was right, you are f****** soft.' Banished from the dug-out, he was forced to watch the second half unfold from an executive box.

Mourinho is alleged to have got around a UEFA stadium ban in 2005 by hiding in a laundry basket, which allowed him to give pre-match and half-time team talks during a Champions League match against Bayern Munich.

He says that will not be a tactic he uses in Saturday's game. 

 

 

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Mourinho Is Inviting Chelsea Civil War With Terry's Axe

He may have regarded it as just one simple decision, but Jose Mourinho was left to rue the absence of his captain John Terry in the second half of Chelsea’s rout by Manchester City at the Etihad stadium yesterday, August 16.

Mourinho believed Terry was not up to the job of marking Chelsea’s nemesis on the night, Sergio Aguero, after the first 45 minutes of the game.

For him, a young and more agile defender in Kurt Zouma needed to be introduced into the game but the result of this change did more harm than good as City ended up putting two more goals past Chelsea’s goalkeeper Asmir Begovic in the 3-0 whitewash of the league champions.

What Mourinho failed to observe going into the dressing room after the half time whistle was that it was Gary Cahill whom Aguero was running rings around for the most part, having cleverly dummied the right-sided centre back before slotting past Begovic for City’s opener.

Never before had Mourinho substituted Terry since his return to Stamford Bridge in 2013. It was the first time Terry had been taken off by Mourinho, in his 177th game under the Portuguese.

Terry has been up against most of the world’s best forwards and few could be said to have given him a genuine run-around. Why suddenly did Mourinho think a younger, faster player would have to be fielded in the second half of last night’s game?

When asked about the substitution, Mourinho said: “The point was not to take John out, but to put Zouma in.

“I want to have my fastest player on the pitch and not on the bench. I know they are going to play counter attack and long balls to Aguero.”

Asked Why Terry and not Cahill, he said: “That is a good question. Why not start Zouma in the first place?”

A football enthusiast will not be new to Mourinho’s mulishness. For the “Special One”, the decision to replace Terry was vindicated in that Chelsea had most of the play after the break, but for disappointed fans, the Portuguese got his tactics wrong this time.

Mourinho though, had found himself another scapegoat in Terry, just like Petr Cech, Juan Mata and others players whose usefulness to Chelsea and Mourinho expired. He has ushered a good number of Chelsea legends out of the door in the three summers he has been back at the club, with Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard among them too.

Terry’s doggedness is certainly a major reason why the skipper is still in London. Mourinho, however, thinks otherwise: he believes he revived Terry’s career at Chelsea.

Irked at a question, Mourinho said: “I don’t know if you ask many questions to Benitez, Andre Villas-Boas, Di Matteo, to the ones that never played him (Terry).

“I am the one you shouldn’t ask because I am the one who played John every game, made him captain, recovered him from a difficult situation with other managers and I had the right to say I want Zouma on the pitch.”

“He was not dancing in the dressing room and he was not having a bad reaction when he took delivery of the news that he was to be subbed.

“He did what everybody does. The manager says this guy comes in and that guy goes out and they all understand.”

A 2-2 draw against Swansea and this 3-0 hammering leaves Mourinho’s men five points behind City.

It is strange for Mourinho to endure such a poor start. In his career he has never been at a club whose output was so shambolic. He has a job on his hands turning this lot around any time soon.

No player is bigger than any club but for a player like John Terry, with 20 years at a club, his input has done more than most to challenge that thinking.

Mourinho has not yet been able to bring in the players he wants but the signing of Abdul Baba Rahman could yet spell trouble for either Cahill or Ivanovic.

“He is a left back he can compete with Azpilicueta,” said Mourinho before adding: “At the same time Azpilicueta can compete with Ivanovic for the right-back poitison so he replaces Filipe Luis in the balance of the squad.”

The Chelsea manager has also been accused of trying to send a defiant message to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich with his controversial decision to substitute John Terry at half-time at Manchester City on Sunday.

Mourinho is keen to sign John Stones from Everton – although the Merseyside club are adamant the player is not for sale – and his decision to remove Terry after 45 minutes at the Etihad Stadium has prompted suggestions he was attempting to provoke Abramovich into action in the transfer market.

He was asked at the end of the press conference whether these players could win him the Premier League again and maybe the Champions League. “Yes,” he said quickly and walked away as he could not think of any convincing words to back it up.

To endure such a start and fall out with his medical staff and then drop his captain at half time of a crucial league game is peculiar. Something is not right for Mourinho at Stamford Bridge.

Meanwhile, Mourinho slammed his defenders for allowing Manchester City to score two cheap second half goals in their second match of the English Premier League.


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