Chelsea doctor faces demotion following coach Mourinho’s outburst

The incident at the center of this storm regard Carneiro running onto the pitch with head physiotherapist Jon Fearn to treat Eden Hazard in the dying stages of Chelsea’s game with Swansea.

Since the well-publicised spat, Chelsea have demoted Carneiro and Fearn who, despite keeping their official titles, will not travel with the squad to the Etihad Stadium this Saturday, cannot attend training sessions or enter the team hotel.

“I thought it was appalling behaviour by the manager”, he told the Liverpool Echo.

Although both the referee and Hazard beckoned on the doctor, Mourinho said afterwards he believed the player was not seriously injured and called his medical staff “impulsive and naive” in a TV interview.

After only one weekend of the English Premier League season, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is in familiar territory: Embroiled in an irrational dispute and his conduct being denounced.

Chelsea have given the roles to two people within the club, but don’t want to name them before the match to protect their privacy.

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”.

The Premier League Doctors’ Group, led by West Brom performance director Mark Gillett, said it considered that “removing Dr Eva Carneiro from the Chelsea team bench for their next match is unjust in the extreme”.

“They went on as they must do, and as a result the player had to come off the field”.

Carneiro joined the Blues in 2009 as a reserve-team doctor before being promoted to the first team in 2011 by then head coach Andre Villas-Boas.

Carneiro took to Facebook following news of her demotion began to circulate, thanking fans for their support. “Really very much appreciated”.

Carneiro and Fearn “acted with integrity and professionalism at all times, fully cognizant of the rules of the game and in full accordance with that duty of care to their patient”, Salmon said.

Chelsea have declined to comment on “internal staffing matters”.

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She worked at fellow Londoners West Ham as she completed her thesis and was later appointed to the UK Sports and Medicine Specialist training programme with the Olympic Medical Institute, helping to prepare British athletes for the 2008 Olympic Games in China.