The press are turning against him. From The Mirror
Jose Mourinho loses his head, Rui Faria loses the plot.. but guess what? It's everyone else's fault
An embarrassing way to bow out of the title race was worsened by the conduct of Jose Mourinho and his staff, who only wanted to play the blame game
Jamie McDonald
Embarrassing: Mourinho is forced to restrain Faria
This is how it normally pans out in Jose Mourinho’s world – aggro, recriminations, nastiness, malice and victimisation.
Often, there’s triumph at the end of it all,
sometimes failure.
And as he dragged away one of his trusted lieutenants by his hair, even Mourinho will know which way this Premier League season is now going.
This may have been the day Mourinho’s bluff about the deficiencies of his squad was called.
He probably had it spot on after all – not good enough for the title, a work not so much in progress as only just begun.
With three pretty hopeless strikers, by the way. His intimation, not mine.
But this was also the day when the refereeing industry administered their own justice to Jose.
Disgracefully, his loyalists could not take it. Has there been a more unedifying sight than Mourinho having to resort to the most basic methods to contain Rui Faria? Not since Jose – still smarting from his recent FA fine no doubt – poked a rival coach in the eye over in Spain.
Throw in the Ramires forearm smash and you have an ignominious and probably decisive setback to Chelsea’s title hopes.
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Too often, Mourinho’s teams have taken their slavish devotion to the image of their manager too far. His backroom staff certainly do. Faria should count himself lucky if he remains in a job this morning.
Had he not been restrained by Mourinho, there is no telling what he would have done. He had lost the plot.
Chelsea should not be aggrieved with Mike Dean’s performance. The decisive penalty WAS a penalty. And, of course, Dean overlooked the Ramires offence. Ramires has form. Bizarrely, Mourinho tried to shovel responsibility for Ramires’ gruesome offence against Karim El Ahmadi on to Chris Foy.
Presumably, even he cannot saddle Dean with blame for the premeditated blow to the side of Seb Larsson’s head. The only blame
Dean should shoulder is not spotting the offence.
The Football Association will rectify that oversight and Ramires can pack away his Premier League boots.
But Dean should not be castigated. This was yet another game pockmarked by spurious appeals, play-acting and snide fouls. And widespread dissent.
A brush-past makes the same players fall over who are grappling like prop forwards ahead of a corner.
Jamie McDonald
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Referees’ senses are
being scrambled by the relentless con-artistry . If a team is wronged, then tough – because there is not a blameless side out there. If Chelsea feel they have been wronged, then tough. They are one of the least blameless. The inevitable loss of Ramires will give Mourinho another wagon for his circle. The siege mentality will surface.
Everything is against them. The enthusiastic, amateur judges in their Wembley offices, the fixture schedule generated by their own progress and, of course, the limitations of his strikers.
Now, the odds are stacked against them.
Mourinho will go to Anfield with the chance to do Manuel Pellegrini a favour but with an unlikely title only a vague possibility, although that assumes Liverpool take care of business at Carrow Road today.
That is not guaranteed. What is guaranteed is that it always turns out this way with Jose. There’s always aggro, always malice, always someone to blame – and
then he either wins or loses.
He’s losing this one.
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