Mourinho wants FA answers to Cech nightmare

Chelsea will write to the Football Association to detail their concerns about the delay in moving Petr Cech from Reading’s Madejski Stadium to hospital.

Jose Mourinho confirmed today that an official complaint would be lodged by the Premiership champions.

Mourinho remains furious with the challenge from Reading’s Stephen Hunt, which fractured the skull of his keeper, in the first minute of Saturday’s Premiership game.

The Chelsea boss is also unhappy about the sequence of events which unfolded once Cech reached the dressing room.

He claims it took 30 minutes to get an ambulance to Cech and that his injured keeper was forced to get off his stretcher and into a wheelchair in order to leave the ground, via a lift.

Reading reject Mourinho’s version of events, insisting it includes “very serious factual inaccuracies”.

The Berkshire club also claim it was Chelsea’s own medical team who decided not to call the ambulance until Cech’s condition deteriorated, 25 minutes after he had left the pitch.

The game kicked off at 5.15pm and South Central NHS Trust confirmed an ambulance was called at 5.45pm.

It arrived at the ground at 5.52pm and Cech was at the Royal Berkshire Hospital at 6.11pm.

This did not stop Mourinho making his point on the eve of Chelsea’s big Champions League clash with Barcelona.

Mourinho said: “There are things that concern me and leave me in a very emotional situation.

“My goalkeeper was in the dressing room for 30 minutes waiting for an ambulance.

“The ambulance could not go in the direction of the dressing room.

“He could not leave the dressing room properly. He had to go in a wheelchair in the lift when he had the injury.

“He left 30 minutes after my doctor called for an urgent ambulance.

“If my goalkeeper dies in that dressing room or in the process it is something English football has to think about.

“This is much more important than football. I would like someone to tell me why my goalkeeper was left in this situation.

“This is much more important than football.

“I’d like somebody to tell me why my goalkeeper in this situation had to be for 30 minutes, in the dressing room, waiting for an ambulance.”

When asked if Chelsea would be making an official complaint, Mourinho said: “We will.”

The Chelsea boss, often in trouble with football’s authorities, has urged the FA and the Premier League to investigate this matter thoroughly.

He insists it is more serious than his ‘shush’ gesture to Liverpool fans in the Carling Cup final in 2005.

Or than Manchester City’s Joey Barton, who was reprimanded for dropping his shorts to Everton fans.

Mourinho said: “When I did that shut-up gesture against Liverpool it was a nightmare.

“A player from Man City showed half of his ass for two seconds and it was also a big nightmare but this is a real nightmare.”

Cech, 24, is still in hospital in Oxford after emergency surgery to fix two metal plates in his skull but his condition has improved greatly since Chelsea players visited him yesterday.

Mourinho said: “I was not happy to see him yesterday because it was quite shocking but today he is better.

“Today he can speak properly which he couldn’t yesterday. He knows who he is. He knows what he’s doing. He wants a television to see the football.

“So the evolution is much better and that makes me and the players much happier with the situation.

“Everybody is sad. Everybody was worried and people are still worried.

“Our feelings are with Petr Cech but life is like that and you have to move on.

“We have a game to play and a lot of games to play without Petr Cech. We have to play.

“We are happier than yesterday and we believe tomorrow the news will be even better and life will be normal.

“It’s part of the game. You have some sad moments by losing some important players. Fifteen days ago Barcelona were very sad because they lost Samuel Eto’o.”

Despite Mourinho’s anger with Hunt’s challenge on Cech in the first minute of the game, the FA are unlikely to bring any charges against the Reading winger.

The Chelsea manager is still backing his judgment that Hunt tried to deliberately hurt his goalkeeper but there is no way the disciplinary chiefs will be able to prove that.

Mourinho said: “I don’t change a single word of my interview after the game. If I changed, I would change them for stronger words.

“I’m not interested in the opinions of other people. I have my own opinion.

“I know one of the reasons why some people love me and some people hate me is because I never close my mouth.

“I always say what I have to say and sometimes people agree. Sometimes people disagree.

“I don’t need other people’s opinions to make me sure of my judgment or make me doubt it.

“My judgment is made and, every time I see the incident, I’m more sure about my feelings and my judgment.”

The FA are not expected to take any action against Mourinho for his verbal attack on Hunt or against the Chelsea coaching team for a touchline bust-up.

There is unlikely to be any further action against Chelsea’s Mikel John Obi or Reading’s Andre Bikey for their angry reactions to being sent off during the game.

Any disciplinary action from any of these incidents will probably take the form of written warnings about future behaviour.