Mourinho targets ‘crying’ Wenger again

The wonder is whether Jose Mourinho believes any of this really works — or whether he actually believes what he is saying himself.

At his usual Friday press conference, the Chelsea manager refused to discuss the Dr Eva Carneiro case, refused to expand on his thoughts that Diego Costa’s suspension is “not normal”, and so returned to what is now a very normal deflection tactic for him: Criticising Arsene Wenger.

This time, he claimed the Arsenal manager gets preferential treatment from authorities because he is allowed to criticise referees without sanction. He intimated that even the media spare Wenger from pressure for bad results.