Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho launched a verbal attack on Cardiff City after the Welsh side was guilty of wasting time during their 4-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge, which has led to the FA charging the Portuguese manager with improper conduct.
There was plenty of controversy all round, but nothing that compared to Chelsea’s controversial equaliser, and the sending to the stands of Mourinho by referee Anthony Taylor halfway through the second half.
There was plenty of controversy all round, but Mourinho had complained following an incident when the referee told Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic to hurry up with a throw in.
The Chelsea boss also had a go at Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall after letting Samuel Eto’o to play the ball back to Eden Hazard before the Belgium’s first half equaliser saying: “Even with space, he took 30 seconds.
“The goalkeeper has six seconds to have the ball, correct? They had almost half a minute. That’s breaking the rules. We played our game, a difficult game, and we deserved to win.
“If I was in that game and I was paying for a ticket, I would be worried with the fact that every time the ball was out or stopped and our opponent had to put the ball back in the game, it took an average of 21.5 seconds.
“That is a waste of money. You pay for your ticket and every time the game stops you have to wait about half a minute?
“When you multiply that by the number of times the game was stopped, you pay for 90 minutes but you see 55 or 60. For me, that’s breaking the rules. Scoring a goal with a hand, that breaks the rules.
“Score a goal that was not a goal, as happened in Germany last week, that’s not funny. In England, there is not any more the goal that is not a goal, but in our time, John Terry was crying in the dressing room because we lost a semi-final in the Champions League and the ball didn’t cross the line.
“Samuel did an intelligent action. When I arrived home the first thing I told my kid who likes to play goalkeeper was, ‘See the goal and don’t do that, eh?’
“If FIFA says that it’s a foul, it’s a foul but Samuel did well. Maybe the referee did wrong. But in my opinion, that should be allowed as it was for years.”
