Saturday, 15th March, 2014
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has taken aim at referee Chris Foy after his side suffered a damaging 1-0 defeat away at Aston Villa this evening.
In a blood and thrust filled encounter at Villa Park, the two teams' were locked level until late on, but an incident had already sprung up before then, with Willian sent off for Chelsea for two bookable offences, the second a simple shirt tug on Fabian Delph.
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If that angered Mourinho, what was to come would positively infuriate the Portuguese tactician.
First, Aston Villa made their man advantage count as Delph backheeled the ball home, sending the home fans into raptures.
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Then any Chelsea comeback was quickly choked off as the visitors were reduced to nine men, Ramires shown a red card for a two-footed challenge on Karim El Ahmadi.
Mourinho protested on the touchline in a manic episode concerning his entire bench, with the upshot being a red card for the Chelsea boss.
And he has wasted little time in lashing out at referee Foy.
"I don't know why I was sent off. I asked, but the referee refused to speak to me", Mourinho told the BBC.
"One player made an aggressive move towards one of my players. Gabriel Agbonlahor was on the bench, he jumped onto the pitch, he was aggressive, everyone jumps onto then pitch, me and my assistants, lots of people there.
"Maybe Mr Foy thought I was aggressive, I don't know. There are no statues in a football match, so everyone should have been sent off.
"We must be very, very unlucky to have another refereeing performance like this one. This was not about one mistake a referee can make, a penalty or not giving a penalty, but this is about a 94-minute performance."
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