Mourinho hits back

JOSE MOURINHO has stoked his feud with the Italian media by issuing a terse statement yesterday ahead of Inter Milan’s Serie A clash with Bologna.

Asked whether the title race was now a three-horse race following his side’s recent poor run, Mourinho said: “I don’t want to talk about the championship. It’s not a three-horse race. It’s a fight between one team and many other things.”

The press interpreted this as a dig at the football authorities, of whom he has fallen foul on a number of occasions this season, but Mourinho said in a statement on www.inter.it today: “Who changed my words, ’many other things’? Not me.