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Jose Mourinho |
Jose Mourinho will have to watch what he says for the next 12 months after
being handed a suspended one-match stadium ban and fined £50,000 for admitting
to breaching Football Association rules.
The Chelsea manager was charged with misconduct for comments he made after
the game against Southampton, when he said the officials were 'afraid to give
decisions for Chelsea' during their 3-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge.
The football authorities consider the comment in breach of FA Rule E3, but
decided to suspend the one-match stadium ban. However, should Mourinho make any
further public comments in breach of the same rule before October 13, 2016 the
suspension will immediately be lifted?
An FA statement said: 'Jose Mourinho has been given a suspended one-match
stadium ban and fined £50,000 after he admitted a breach of FA Rules in
relation to post-match media comments.
'The Chelsea manager was charged for misconduct following the game against
Southampton on Saturday 3 October 2015.
'It
was alleged his remarks constituted improper conduct in that they alleged
and/or implied bias on the part of a match official or match officials and/or
brought the game into disrepute.
'Mr Mourinho's suspended stadium ban will be immediately invoked should he
be found by an Independent Regulatory Commission to have committed a further
breach of FA Rule E3 for any comment or statement to or through the media
before 13 October 2016.'
'The result 1-1 is a huge penalty and once more we don’t get and a penalty
is a crucial moment in the game with the result at 1-1, and I repeat that if FA
wants to punish me they can punish me they don’t punish other managers but they
punish me, it's not a problem for me.
'But I want to repeat because I think that my players deserve it, Chelsea
fans deserve it. I am a Chelsea fan too and I want to say it again. Referees
are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea. Why? Because when they give there’s
always a question mark from you, there’s always a question there’s always a
critique.'
READ JOSE MOURINHO'S SEVEN-MINUTE RANT IN FULL
Look, I think you know me and I think I don’t run away from
responsibilities. I think, first of all I want to say that because we are in
such a bad moment I think you shouldn’t be afraid to be also honest because
when we are in the top there is quite a big pleasure in put us down but when we
are so down I think it’s time to be a little bit honest and to say clearly that
referees are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea.
The result 1-1 is a huge penalty and once more we don’t get and a penalty
is a crucial moment in the game with the result at 1-1, and I repeat that if FA
wants to punish me they can punish me they don’t punish other managers but they
punish me, it's not a problem for me.
But I want to repeat because I think that my players deserve it, Chelsea
fans deserve it. I am a Chelsea fan too and I want to say it again. Referees
are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea. Why? Because when they give there’s
always a question mark from you, there’s always a question there’s always a
critique.
So you are always punished, we are punished because Diego Costa is
suspended with images, in other matches we see the same thing and it doesn't
happen. Clear penalties are not given and it’s one and one and one and one and
even in Champions League in a match you lose 2-1, even in the Champions League
which is a game which is not three officials but with five you are not given a
penalty in last minute and this penalty in this game today is more than crucial
do you know why? Because for my team in this moment the first negative thing
that happen, my team collapse.
The team mentally, psychologically, the team is unbelievable down it looks
like good players are bad players and the first half was a game where we didn't
show our quality but we were in control, we were more than in control, and one
mistake and lack of concentration, one goal and when you are having a good
time.
In normal circumstances you come to the second half and you do your game, I
told the players at half time no panic we are not losing 4-0 it’s 1-1, no
panic, the team comes out with a good spirit we have a penalty and the penalty
is a giant penalty and he is afraid to give like everybody is afraid to give so
no penalty and after that the team lost even more confidence and you know that
their second goal is an individual mistake, their third goal is another
individual mistake. The team mentally, they try, they try, they try, they are
in such a low moment that they collapse.
I can also know what you are thinking, what you are saying in studio, what
people imagine, what is is going to happen, what is not going to happen, I want
to let it clear.
One, I not run away. Two, if the club wants to sack me they have to sack me
because I’m not running away from my responsibilities from my team and from my
convictions.
That, be champions is obviously very difficult because the distance is
considerable but I’m more than convinced that we finish top four, and when the
season is so bad if you finish top four it is OK.
Third even more important than first and second, I think this is a crucial
moment in the history of this club.
Do you know why? Because if the club sacks me they sack the best manager
that this club have, and secondly the message is again the message of bad
result, the manager is guilty and this is the message that not just these
players but the other ones before they got during a decade.
I think this is a moment for everybody to assume responsibility, I assume
my responsibility I think the players should assume their responsibility and
there are other people in the club that they should also assume their
responsibilities and to stick together. And this is what I want.
The players they still have to play until the end of the season with the
gold champions thing in their shirt and I want to work always, you know, I
consider myself, I have a big self-esteem, a big ego, I consider myself the
best, living the worst period of my career and worst results of my career,
doing that as a professional hurts me a lot, doing it at Chelsea hurts me twice
because it hurts me as a professional and hurts me because I like this club
very, very much and was because of that that I come back so I want to carry on,
I want to carry on no doubt, no doubt and I assume my responsibilities but I
think it’s time for everybody to assume their responsibilities because when you
go down to so many individual mistakes and fear to play, they have their
responsibilities, they are players that are performing really, really bad
individually, I can not come here and say you, and you, and you, and you, it’s
not my job but I think it’s clear that we are being punished by too many
individual mistakes and as I was saying sadness brings sadness, bad
results they attract bad results, that first mistake is just the first because
after that comes another one.
This team needs to win the first-half two or three nil with the fears
disappearing coming to play in the second half and play with a free brain, a
free spirit. This is what this team needs and unfortunately for them this is
not happening and again I repeat so I want to make it clear again, because I
not want to be offensive, I don't want to be none-polite I don't want to put in
cause the dignity of the people, but I repeat that the referees they are afraid
to give the decision when you are top you want to see people come down when
people is down give us a break and be honest and be loyal with us because the
penalty is clear and 2-1 is a completely different story, thank you.
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