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Mourinho: I May Not Bother To Watch Stoke Game At All

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“For me, it’s very similar to going to a cinema and somebody tells me “you are not allowed to come in”.

Asked whether he would be watching the game anywhere, he said: “I have no plans [to watch]”.

He added: ‘I can not have contact with the game so maybe I don’t watch’. I think Arsenal and Tottenham are the only two teams that have earned as many points as us over the last six games.

Mourinho was hit with a suspended ban, as well as a £50,000 fine, after he embarked on a seven-minute rant following Chelsea’s 3-1 loss to Southampton in October, claiming that referees were “scared” to give decisions to his side.

The Portuguese’s relationship with the FA is fractious and he is not planning to test it on Saturday.

“I will travel with the team and I will be with them until we reach the limit of the stadium facilities”.

“We know when I have to stop”.

The Stoke boss says he will not be checking for his opposite number in the Blues’ laundry skips despite joking that the Chelsea boss could use them to get round his stadium ban.

He will serve that ban this weekend and will be unable to attend his side’s Saturday Night Football game against Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.

The Premier League champions have had a miserable campaign so far, but were slightly boosted by their midweek Champions League win over Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday.

Chelsea have lost more than half their Premier League matches and are languishing in 15th place in the table.

“It is clear from both the letter from Mr Mourinho and his submissions that he regrets the incident and to his credit he made an early admission”, the written reasons said.

The Welshman said: “I’d like to think if we put in the level of performance that we did in the Capital One Cup then hopefully we’ll get a few more mentions”. In this moment I am not just prevented from doing my work I am stopped from going to a stadium and do something I love so much which is football.

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