THE FA HAVE revealed that Jose Mourinho’s stadium ban came as a result of him refusing to leave the referees’ room at Upton Park last month before swearing twice at match official Jon Moss during a heated confrontation.
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On Thursday, Mourinho failed with an appeal against a separate suspended stadium ban and £50,000 fine for comments made after Chelsea’s match against Southampton.
Rd 12 Draw (home teams first): Sat – Bournemouth v Newcastle, Leicester v Watford, Man United v West Brom, Norwich v Swansea, Sunderland v Southampton, West Ham v Everton, Stoke v Chelsea. After he refused I asked Mr Sutton [West Ham’s security manager] to escort him from the room.
When Mourinho was asked whether his recent punishments may force him to look overseas for another club, he added: “I don’t know”. I gave him answers. After he refused again I asked Mr Sutton to escort him from the room.
The Blues are already under tremendous pressure due to their dire run of form and Hoddle feels the absence of Mourinho from the touchline as well as the stadium, could have an adverse effect on the Chelsea players. “Wenger is right about you…you are f****** weak”.
The interesting part is that Mourinho has bypassed the opportunity to appeal against the ban altogether which means he would not even be allowed inside the Britannia Stadium.
“I will travel and be with the team until the moment somebody stops me”, he said. But from my point of view I want to be out of it, let the game tomorrow finish and that is it.
But he added that while he can go as far as the Britannia Stadium entrance he may just go back to the Chelsea stadium and not even bother to watch the game.
“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 am not sure if it is for us or the FA to monitor him, because who is to know whether he will have a phone to his ear?” According to the FA, he was “aggressive, animated and agitated” in his behaviour.
That said, Mourinho’s clearly not happy with the ban and the precedent it sets.
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“It’s open in the future for a stadium ban to happen many more times, unless we have our association question it in a serious way”.
