Mourinho received the ban after the half-time altercation with referee Jon Moss which saw him sent to the stands in his side’s 2-1 defeat to West Ham United last month.
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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says he won’t challenge his one-match stadium ban and he may not even watch his side’s game at all.
“When myself and my colleagues left the field of play at half-time, as we entered the tunnel area to get to our dressing room, Mr Mourinho the Chelsea manager was waiting for us clearly agitated and began aggressively asking about first-half decisions”. “I am stopped, not just to do my work, stopped to go to the stadium, stopped to do something I love so much”. If I speak about the dimension of the punishment, I think it opens up a range of situations and I can imagine in the future we are going to have lots of managers with stadium bans. “I don’t speak about it. It’s stupid to fight a fight that you know you have already lost”.
Asked whether he would be watching the game anywhere, he said: “I have no plans [to watch]”.
“It will make me change”.
“Maybe our association (League Managers Association) can question the rights of the managers with a stadium ban, in a legal way”.
Mourinho’s stadium ban has come at a less than ideal time for the defending Premier League champions who now lie 15th in the English top flight.
This week he had an appeal against a $105,000 fine and suspended one-match ban dismissed, those sanctions arising for comments he made after his team’s defeat by Southampton earlier in the season where he said officials were afraid to award Chelsea a penalty.
“In this moment, I see him exactly in the middle of that positive context, which is a team playing well, trying to play more and more”.
“I have sat down with my staff and created extreme scenarios to prepare them for the match and the subs”.
“I am in charge”.
“I have to get out (of the bus) before (it reaches the stadium)”.
“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”, Mourinho explained to the gathered media at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground on Friday.
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“Every responsibility is my responsibility”.
