Mourinho feels ‘no pressure’ at top of Premiership table

CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho is feeling “no pressure” at the top of the table - and insisted it is Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson who should be worrying.

And the Portuguese made clear he would not be joining in their increasingly bitter mind-games battle declaring that he does not even watch out for their results.

“They can say what they want, it doesn’t interfere with what I think. This may be my first year in England but I have the experience of other leagues. For me, there is no pressure to lead. The pressure is being second or third.

“Every week you have to win and then be on television or radio asking for the leader to lose points. When you lead, you can forget the other teams.

“I don’t see Arsenal or Manchester United on television, I am not waiting for their results on the radio. I just want to play. If we win, the job for that week is done.

“So I don’t feel pressure and I carry on saying that to the players. Now we have a 10-point lead, I tell the players that we can afford to make a mistake.”

Mourinho, who last season lifted both the Portuguese title and the Champions League with Porto believed he could win the Premiership in his first season from the very start.

“Since the first day, we have just thought about winning the championship,” he said.

“We believed we could do that, in spite of competing against Manchester United and Arsenal, who have had a lot of years with the same managers and players.”

Now Chelsea have established a 10-point lead, only a collapse akin to Newcastle’s self-destruction in 1995-96 can unseat them.

Mourinho said: “if one day we lose a game or two points and the gap goes from 10 to seven or eight, we are ready to accept it as natural and keep going.”

“The reality is that if it goes from 10 to 12 or 13 points then maybe it [the title race] is over.”