Finally, something they agree on: Jose Mourinho agrees with Arsene Wenger that referees are weak
FA discloses details of Chelsea manager’s foul-mouthed rant at West Ham
Jose Mourinho is serving his one-match stadium ban at Stoke this weekend after a foul-mouthed rant at referee Jonathan Moss, the Football Association revealed on Friday.
He shouted that you ******* referees are weak... (Arsenal manager Arsene) Wenger is right about you... you are ******* weak
The FA have released the written reasons for the case, which Mourinho opted not to contest and say he refused to leave the officials’ dressing room at West Ham’s Upton Park while aiming a barrage of abuse at Moss.
Moss’s testimony of the half-time incident from struggling Chelsea’s defeat on October 24 claims Mourinho was furious after Nemanja Matic had been sent-off for two bookable offences and the visitors denied two goals, one due to goal-line technology and the other due to offside.
“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,” Moss says in the written reasons.
“Rather than publically (sic) speak to him I asked him to step into the entrance of my dressing room escorted by Simon Sutton, the West Ham United security manager.
“Mr Mourinho asked me about a tackle, an offside and a goal line clearance. I gave him brief answers to his questions. After this I asked him to leave the dressing room area.