The Mourinho Thread

[LAM09 7,063]

He always speaks his mind.

[manpe 10,861]

Sometimes, it's not even about that. I doubt Jose had that at the forefront of his thoughts. He just gave an honest opinion on an unacceptable situation.

True, that's also what I think. I think that people often overcomplicate things what Jose says. I find that most of the times he just speaks his mind, especially when he's freshly frustrated.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

The media bias has always annoyed me. We don't get the credit that we deserve or we just get constantly trampled on in the media.

Example:

Martin Tyler. He has to be the most obvious anti-chelsea guy going, I don't know if its just me but today against Southampton when Hazard scored, just after that he sounded so damn depressed. He is a joke.

Last season, Gary Neville, who I believe is a breath of fresh air in the punditry stakes said something after Demba Ba scored against Liverpool that I hated, he didn't say 'great finish' or 'calmness from Ba'. He said 'Typical Chelsea, typical Mourinho' in a way that felt like it was a negative.

We don't make it easy for ourselves sometimes, diving especially, but it does feel like it's always Chelsea who are used as an example of the bad side of football, whereas the likes of Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd are always the beacons of light in the premier league.

I hate it, but I absolutely fecking love it when Jose calls them on their shit, in press conferences (grumpy one word answer Jose), post matches like above and in interviews during the week. I want him to have a go at Redknapp again so he can wipe that shit eating grin off his face again.

Up the Chelsea and tell'em Jose! :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

[illmatic 901]

"I think it is a scandal because it is not a small penalty - it is a penalty like Big Ben,"

Hahahahahaha the fucking Boss, another fantastic quote of Jose.

[Fernando 6,585]

Well it's funny I mentioned a couple of days ago that because Ivanovic diving shenanigans we will get a true penalty call and not get it due to the perception we have at this instance. And just like that we got it here.

Mourinho can say whatever he wants but he's just deflecting from the real problem.

He needs to rotate more, or the players he have for rotation are not as good to fill in, and he needs to have a word with Ivanovic to stop the diving.

Everything else is sensationalism and some of you guys buy into it like shepo.

Mourinho always do this to stop people talking about the team.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Well it's funny I mentioned a couple of days ago that because Ivanovic diving shenanigans we will get a true penalty call and not get it due to the perception we have at this instance. And just like that we got it here.

Mourinho can say whatever he wants but he's just deflecting from the real problem.

He needs to rotate more, or the players he have for rotation are not as good to fill in, and he needs to have a word with Ivanovic to stop the diving.

Everything else is sensationalism and some of you guys buy into it like shepo.

Mourinho always do this to stop people talking about the team.

You're right for sure. People need to jump off this interview, it's irrelevant to be honest. It's a stunt and José deserves a lot of praise for that, but I don't buy it for a second lmao.

I may be a bit naive, but I do have the feeling he's spoken to Ivanovic and Cahill and the rest of the squad about diving. The 2004-07 team didn't have divers in it, sure there was an over dramatic Drogba - but never cheating. Though, if you look at his Real Madrid team in his first season they were as rough as it came (Ramos, I suspect, was the leader behind that albeit).

Mourinho knows PR and he's doing well with it.. But this is for them and the papers, not for us. We should see past it.

[Fernando 6,585]

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HERE WE GO!!!

Last year we had no chance. This year we can beat them, as we got a more complete team and of course mourinho can outfox carlo.

The one team I don't want to face is Bayern.

Pep just like mourinho are hurt after last year and this year are like a hurting animal.

Don't want to to take on that animal till the final or someone else eliminates them.

[supporter 3,088]

One of us

[Jase 43,479]

Gary Neville: Jose Mourinho attempting to put pressure on referees by saying there is a campaign against Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

Scored 9 goals in our first 2 league away games this season; Netted only 10 in following 8. No back-to-back away wins since August. This is somewhat worrying.

[Tomo 21,751]

Scored 9 goals in our first 2 league away games this season; Netted only 10 in following 8. No back-to-back away wins since August. This is somewhat worrying.

We should be aiming for about 17 home wins, do that then 5 more away wins should be enough.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

José Mourinho is a genius, and anyone that doesn't recognise that is an idiot.

His tirade yesterday means the next referee to deny us a penalty will be publicly be torn to pieces. He is intimidating referees in the same way Sir Alex did.

Give this excellent article a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/chelsea-penalty-appeals-could-be-swayed-by-jose-mourinho-rant-over-cesc-fabregas-incident-9947999.html

[Fulham Broadway 17,333]

Hes made a tactical foul for the team. Get the media focussing on him, stick up for the boys, alleviate the pressure. Only thing he failed to mention was the medias total blindness when it came to Andy Carolls blatant dive last week when it was still 0-0.

[Madmax 9,219]

Gary Neville: Jose Mourinho attempting to put pressure on referees by saying there is a campaign against Chelsea

All well and true maybe, but why does Neville or any other pundit not have the balls to stick their necks out and speak about the action that elicited a reaction from Mourinho? Was it a foul? Did Fabregas dive? If he didn't, shouldn't the yellow be rescinded? Why not speak about these issues?

[Jase 43,479]

[lionsden 4,689]

It gets on my nerves how everything he says after we drop points is seen as mind games. Why can't it simply be him telling it how he sees it. Many Chelsea fans had the same feeling too that the referee was influenced by Cahill and Ivanovic's dive and the attention it received. It's very dissappointing when some Chelsea fans see it as mind games as well. It's not mind games or some clever attempt to divert attention away from the result, if he's telling the truth even if it has similar effect, I'm sure it's unintended.

Fabregas doesn't get booked and probably would have been awarded the penalty if there wasn't a huge media focus on our players recent diving antics. fact.

Haven't said that we brought it on ourselves and ivanovic is an idiot.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Give this excellent article a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/chelsea-penalty-appeals-could-be-swayed-by-jose-mourinho-rant-over-cesc-fabregas-incident-9947999.html

But this is all incorrect because it is based on this single sentence that is completely false:

"Complicit in all this is the media. If Mourinho’s comments had been dismissed as another attempt, by a master of the art, to influence the public debate they would not be as effective."

That is not at the case because ALL the papers today are talking about Jose playing mind games and no one about the fact that we would have had 2 extra points if it weren't for a terrible refereeing decision, and that, while most of the previous bookings for diving for our players have been correct, no one makes nearly as much fuss when players from rival teams dive and often escape bookings even though the ref does not give a foul.

I said in the match thread, I have no complains about not getting the pen because our players have been diving recently, but other teams should be treated in the same manner. It is a campaign when the media only talks about the incidents involving us and not about Yaya Toure or Sterling diving almost every match, or Mane faking injury 3 times in the last 10 minutes yesterday and the ref only giving 4 added minutes, or the fact that opposition are actively trying to injure our players.

[didierforever 7,349]

All well and true maybe, but why does Neville or any other pundit not have the balls to stick their necks out and speak about the action that elicited a reaction from Mourinho? Was it a foul? Did Fabregas dive? If he didn't, shouldn't the yellow be rescinded? Why not speak about these issues?

i think they did. i mean i saw the post match show of andy townsend and he totally stuck up for us and cesc. infact right after the game and even before the jose pre-match came out, he said the exact thing that the ref's decision to book cesc was premeditated.

[Fernando 6,585]

José Mourinho is a genius, and anyone that doesn't recognise that is an idiot.

His tirade yesterday means the next referee to deny us a penalty will be publicly be torn to pieces. He is intimidating referees in the same way Sir Alex did.

Give this excellent article a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/chelsea-penalty-appeals-could-be-swayed-by-jose-mourinho-rant-over-cesc-fabregas-incident-9947999.html

Genius about not standing up from the beginning and cutting the problem to the root?

He should have criticized Ivan and Cahill for the dive and said something like "that's something we don't tolerate".

Instead he acted ignorant saying that he didn't see it....

Now when we get screw he decides to talk....

Like I said before a bunch of nonsense that frankly I don't care anymore from him.

He's an awesome coach, but most stuff he says is nothing of greatness.

The problem was there from the beginning for us to see, clearly it was something some of us had anticipated.

Now on to the real problem besides the diving and that's our rotation.

We do very little rotation, and the players we have to rotate are not as good.

Schurrle, Salah cannot give us a good game.

And those are the areas that continue to be overworked in Oscar, Hazard and Wililian.

The replacements are just very woeful at this moment.

[Tomo 21,751]

It gets on my nerves how everything he says after we drop points is seen as mind games. Why can't it simply be him telling it how he sees it. Many Chelsea fans had the same feeling too that the referee was influenced by Cahill and Ivanovic's dive and the attention it received. It's very dissappointing when some Chelsea fans see it as mind games as well. It's not mind games or some clever attempt to divert attention away from the result, if he's telling the truth even if it has similar effect, I'm sure it's unintended.

Fabregas doesn't get booked and probably would have been awarded the penalty if there wasn't a huge media focus on our players recent diving antics. fact.

Haven't said that we brought it on ourselves and ivanovic is an idiot.

Not everything is mind games, I think criticism of the ref was telling it how it is, however going as far as saying people are building a campaign against us does have some ulterior motive to it.