Chelsea doctor dropped after Mourinho blast

Club doctor Eva Carneiro thanked the public for their support in the aftermath of the criticism, but reports suggest she is set to be given a reduced role on the Chelsea bench as a result.

The club has now demoted Carneiro, meaning she will no longer attend training sessions, games or enter the team hotel. Image: PA.

It all stemmed from an incident which saw an apparently injured Eden Hazard forced off the field, reducing Chelsea – who already had goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois sent off – temporarily to to nine men against the rampant Swans. However, as reported by The Independent, footage of the events prior to Carneiro treating Hazard show the referee calling for Chelsea’s medical staff to take the pitch, despite Mourinho’s protests that they did so of their own accord.

And Rogers, who did not question Carneiro’s judgement and treatment of Hazard, added: “There has to be a very good relationship between the medical staff, or the physician, and the manager”.

Eva Carneiro will not be in dugout for Chelsea’s next game with Manchester City following a fallout with blues boss Jose Mourinho. “Really very much appreciated”, said the doctor.

Former head of sports medicine and sports science at Liverpool, Peter Brukner, also criticised Mourinho.

“Factors extraneous to the immediate medical needs of the patient (such as the stage and state of the game) can not be part of their consideration at such time”.

“It’s got nothing to do with the manager”, Brukner told BBC Sport.

Carneiro joined Chelsea in February 2009 and was promoted to the role of first-team doctor and assistant medical director by Andre Villas-Boas, one of Mourinho’s predecessors, in 2011.

The Premier League Doctors Group this week that removing her from the team bench would be “unjust in the extreme” as she was doing her job properly. “What do you expect the doctor to do?” They weren’t just ‘oh you ran on the pitch, you made a mistake.’ To be honest with you, you do have to understand the game.

“This is our professional law, and our ethical duty to look after the players’ health”. So then to criticize the medical staff publicly in the way that he did was absolutely appalling behavior.

A spokesman for Chelsea has simply said the club does not comment on “internal staffing matters”.