No Change

We have come to the end of another calendar year and as we go into 2015 nothing much has changed with managers still moaning and groaning about the men in the middle with the whistles. Week in and week out they are turning their attentions to ranting and raving to the press about so called decisions they have not got during games. Imaginary penalties they have looked for and not received or when their players are sent off bemoaning that the referee got it wrong. So just as 2014 was coming to a close, it was beyond belief that the so-called special one was claiming once again that there was a refereeing campaign against his team. Yes I am writing about Jose Mourinho, the best man of the mind games this beautiful game of ours has ever come across. Below I will clear up a few facts for Mr Mourinho and once and for all bury this guy’s behavior.

As I sat watching Mr Mourinho go into melt during the week, over the penalty claim turned down in the Southampton game my mind began to wander about his career in football and his clashes with referees over the years. More so his teams antics during the ninety minutes of games, no matter what club he has been at. When we first came across him he was manager of Porto and his teams antics in two games, which spring to mind, were against Manchester United and Glasgow Celtic. Both Sir Alex Ferguson and Martin O Neill came out heavily in their criticism of his teams’ gamesmanship behavior. Player’s time wasting and diving yes diving to win at all costs. It was a cancer coming into our game that was not needed.

On his arrival at Stamford Bridge I am not sure what he was putting into his players tea but it seemed to affect their ability to stay on their feet once tackled. Even that big man Didier Drogba was kissing the grass on a regular basis. It seems as if things have come full circle with Mr Mourinho back in the English Premier League after spells with Inter and Real to which I am sure his tactics were the same. When I watched Chelsea v Hull recently I actually thought that his Chelsea players had hit a new low for diving. In fact it was not just the Hull came but they have been at it all season. Against Hull Costa Willian and especially Cahill were seen to produce dives that Tom Daley would have been proud of. So when the referee turned down Fabregas penalty claim in the recent Southampton game and the player received a yellow card for simulation I applauded his decision and I finally thought, at long last Mourinhos tactics have come back to bite him in the backside. Now he can claim all he likes that there is a campaign out there against his side but he has to have a look at himself because his teams have had a history of this behavior over the years.

Let me put another angle on this before I close out. Every week since the season started pundits and fans have been tipping Chelsea for the title and in fairness they managed to open up a sizable gap between themselves and their nearest rivals Manchester City. In fact some local bookies have actually paid out on Chelsea already, but guess what? City is still there and are now right on top of Chelsea in the race. So when Jose was ranting the other day, their was a possibility his team could have been level at the top with City if the Manchester men had not blown a two nil lead. The pressure is on Mourinho because he has won nothing recently but as per usual he steps below the belt and blames the referees. Does anybody remember what he did to Anders Frisk ?

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