Jose: Fine an ‘absolute disgrace’

A seething Jose Mourinho has rounded on the Football Association for perceived inconsistencies in its disciplinary process, and again hit out at Arsene Wenger without naming the Arsenal boss.

Mourinho was handed a one-match suspended stadium ban and fined £50,000 (€68,000) on Wednesday after accepting a misconduct charge from the FA for comments he made about the officials in the wake of the 3-1 loss to Southampton on October 3.

The Portuguese will be banned from the stadium if he speaks out of turn again in the next 12 months.

“Every word I say is a big risk for me,” said the Chelsea boss, who was speaking at Waterstones Piccadilly to promote his book MOURINHO.

“I am happy that I don’t have an electronic tag. I think it’s not far from (that).

“I also think that £50,000 in the world where we live today is an absolute disgrace.

“And I also think that the possibility of getting a stadium ban is also something absolutely astonishing.”

Mourinho felt aggrieved Wenger went unpunished for calling referee Mike Dean “weak” and “naive” following Arsenal’s defeat to Chelsea.

Yet the Portuguese was sanctioned for his criticism of Robert Madeley, the official in the loss to Saints.

Wenger also escaped punishment for pushing Mourinho in the Stamford Bridge technical area in October 2014, something which still grates with the Chelsea boss.

Mourinho said: “There is something that, now, we know. One, we can push people in the technical area. We can, no problem.

“The word ‘afraid’ is a punishment, and a hard punishment. But to say the referee was ‘weak and naive’, referring to one of the top referees, not just in this country, also in Europe, to call him ‘weak and naive’ we can do.”