13:25
José Mourinho slams
Newcastle United ball boys
after Chelsea defeat.....
Manager claims there was
orchestrated time-wasting
Portuguese adamant that ‘best team
lost’ at St James’ Park
Match report: Newcastle United 2-1
Chelsea
José Mourinho shows his frustration during
Chelsea's 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United, while a
happier Alan Pardew also signals. Photograph:
Carl Recine/Action Images
José Mourinho Chelsea
Newcastle United
Louise Taylor at St James' Park
Saturday 6 December 2014 13.55 EST
Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was
ended by Newcastle United at St James’s
Park, when Papiss Cissé scored twice as
José Mourinho’s side lost their
invincibles tag with a 2-1 defeat .
The Portuguese has never won a Premier
League match on Tyneside and, despite
initially declaring he had “no
complaints”, Chelsea’s manager could
not resist suggesting this unscheduled
defeat had been down to a time-wasting
conspiracy orchestrated by the home
side.
“We wanted to play more football, but it
was not possible because of a few things
I thought didn’t belong any more to top-
level football, but still belong here,” he
said. “The ball disappeared, the ball
doesn’t come, another ball comes, the
ball boys run away. These kinds of
situations that are, unfortunately, still
part of the game. But no complaints.”
While Mourinho suggested there should
have been 20 minutes of stoppage time at
the end of the game, Alan Pardew was
nonplussed by the referee’s rather
astonishing decision to add six minutes
and Mourinho’s ball-boy-related
comments.
“José’s frustrated,” said a manager
pleasantly surprised to see his third-
choice goalkeeper, Jak Alnwick, make a
stunning debut after replacing the
injured Rob Elliot at half-time. “I
understand that, but you’ve got to give
the opposition credit. José’s moan at the
ball boys was a bit harsh. Come on, it’s
unbelievable. José won’t agree, but we’ve
done the Premier League a favour by
making the title race more interesting.”
Chelsea have now lost their past three
league games at Newcastle, with the first
of that sequence coming when Rafael
Benítez was in charge. “We are not
invincible,” said Mourinho, whose
players could not capitalise on Steven
Taylor’s 81st-minute sending-off for a
second bookable offence. “We were
unlucky. The best team lost. The team
that tried to win lost. It’s a lucky day for
Newcastle, but that’s football.
Congratulations to Newcastle.”
Not that he blamed the referee, Martin
Atkinson. “I’d be very disappointed if the
first defeat had arrived because of a big
refereeing mistake or my team being
complacent, I’d be very sad. But that’s
not the case, the referee was very good
and my players tried everything to win.
We were unlucky – but one day we will
be lucky.”
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