The calm before the storm as Mourinho and Slaven Bilic shake hands before Chelsea’s game with West Ham.
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“I asked him to step into my dressing room”. Mr Mourinho asked me about a tackle, an offside and a goal line clearance. After he refused again I asked Mr Sutton to escort him from the room. After he refused again I asked the security officer to escort him from the room.
Wenger had called referee Mike Dean “naive” and “weak” after Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat at Chelsea in September.
Mourinho also feels his stadium ban “could set a precedent for many more stadium bans for managers in the future”. “We know we have to improve more and keep going in the same way”.
“What I think is important is for them to feel protected by the fact that it is my responsibility and it is just for the players to play and for the assistants to be with them and be supportive”. “I don’t speak about it. It’s stupid to fight a fight that you know you have already lost”.
“I have no plans”. I choose the team and I predict to the maximum I can the different aspects of the game and the different directions it can follow. I do the maximum I can on the directions of the game and try to prepare them even better than ever – players and assistants.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has failed in his appeal against a suspended stadium ban.
The Portuguese stadium ban will be invoked if he is guilty of further misconduct relating to media comments. But he is not planning to test it on Saturday.
Mourinho – barred from the Britannia Stadium for the meeting with Hughes’s side – was smuggled into Stamford Bridge among the laundry for a Champions League quarter-final with Bayern Munich in 2005 to dodge a similar ban. “I’ll travel with them (the team)”. We know when I have to stop. I have to get out (of the coach) before.
Chelsea head into the weekend action sitting 15th in the Premier League table and a full 14 points adrift of leaders Manchester City so Mourinho will be demanding victory to get his side climbing up the division.
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Wednesday night’s Champions League defeat of Dynamo Kiev was Chelsea’s second win in six matches.
