English FA charges Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has been charged with misconduct by the FA for remarks he made about match officials as part of his seven-minute rant following his side’s 3-1 home loss to Southampton on Saturday.
The FA alleges his comments ‘imply bias on the part of a match official’ as Mourinho began his TV rant by attacking referee Robert Madley claiming that he denied Chelsea a penalty, adding officials were ‘afrai’ to award his side spot-kicks.
Mourinho has until 18:00 BST on 8 October to respond to the charge.
Speaking after the Southampton game, with an animated response to just the opening question live on Sky Sports, Mourinho said: “He was afraid to give it like everyone else is afraid to give it.
“Why? Because there is always a question mark from you [the media] and always a critic so we are always punished.

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“The penalty in this game is more than crucial because my team, at the moment, the first negative thing that happens… they collapse.
“After that the team lost even more confidence. Mentally, psychologically, the team is unbelievably down.
“If the Football Association wants to punish me they can. They don’t punish other managers.”
However the Sky pundits felt there was an element of a dive from Falcao who was shown the yellow card for diving, while Southampton might have had a couple of penalties of their own.
Clearly Mourinho was hurt by yet another defeat and was lashing out, first against the officials, but he made the point that he could afford a FA fine so was going to tell it as he saw it, the truth as known only to Jose Mourinho.

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