Mourinho in another Wenger attack
Chelsea Jose Mourinho has launched yet another
thinly veiled dig at his Arsenal counterpart Arsene
Wenger.
Asked about his reaction to the Football
Association's decision to retrospectively ban
Diego Costa for his fracas with Laurent Koscielny
during last Saturday's clash between the two
teams, Mourinho suggested he cannot talk freely
about refereeing decisions, but Wenger can: "I
think your question is clear. You don’t need my
answer. The answer is in your question. It’s not
normal.
"I don’t answer. Because if I answer I will be
suspended. I don’t want to touch the thing that
surrounds this situation. I want to be on the bench.
"In the rule book, it says some managers can
speak about the referee before the game or after
the game, and some others cannot. And I am in
the list of managers who get punished before or
after the game. I have to stick to that rulebook.
"An imaginary list, but clearly."
And when questions moved on to Steve McClaren,
the manager of Saturday's opponents Newcastle,
coming under pressure for a slow start to the
season, Mourinho again brought up Wenger.
"I think in this country, only one manager is not
under pressure. Every other manager is under
pressure, so Steve is under pressure, I am under
pressure, Brendan [Rodgers] is under pressure,
[Manuel] Pellegrini is under pressure, everybody
is under pressure.
"We cannot lose matches, we cannot be below
expectations, we have to reach our objectives, so
I have sympathy for all of them and I also believe
they have sympathy to myself because it's a
difficult job.
"There is one that, for some reason, he's outside
that list but good for him, good for him, of course I
have sympathy for Steve."
A reporter asked Mourinho to which manager he
was referring, and the Portuguese replied: "He
can speaks about referees before the game, he
can speak about referees after the game, he can
push people in the technical area, cry in the
morning, cry in the afternoon, nothing happens.
Can not achieve, keep the job, still be king. It's a
privilege."
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