Jose Mourinho will serve stadium ban

The FA has published the written reasons for Mourinho’s stadium ban and £40,000 fine after he reluctantly accepted the charge – E3 for improper conduct – and will miss Saturday’s Premier League match away to Stoke City which is so crucial to his survival at the club.

Manager Jose Mourinho will not be allowed to watch Chelsea’s match against Stoke City from Britannia Stadium.

“The most incredible scenarios that you can imagine, let’s go to extreme scenarios”.

“I travel with the players and will be with them until someone stops me, I think it’s when I am just outside the stadium”.

“Now it is open to bans happening many more times unless maybe our managers’ association and other associations around Europe question in a very serious and legal way the rights of the managers having stadium bans”.

One big positive for Mourinho was his side’s win in the Champions League in midweek, and he will hope to gain a few momentum from that result to take into Saturday’s game, as he looks to revive a Premier League campaign which has seen the reigning champions start poorly, leaving them in 15th place.

When asked whether he considered a further appeal of his latest FA punishment he stated: “No. I knew the outcome of the appeal, so I made a decision to give up”.

“I asked him to leave the dressing room area”, Moss wrote in his report.

“An appeal board has dismissed the appeal from Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in relation to a decision made by an independent regulatory commission”, a statement from the FA read. “They know I am going to prepare the team until the moment they go to the game”, he told London’s Evening Standard newspaper. “I think that I’m here nearly two years and we have not played without a coach yet, but we will be ready”.

When asked if he planned on appealing the ban, Mourinho’s responded with expected defeat saying that he wouldn’t appeal as he thought “it’s stupid to fight a fight you know you are going to lose”.

“Maybe I sit in a street corner with my iPad to watch the game. I can’t control the game so what’s the point”.

Wednesday night’s Champions League defeat of Dynamo Kiev was Chelsea’s second win in six matches since Mourinho was the subject of the first managerial vote of confidence in Roman Abramovich’s 12-year ownership, easing the pressure somewhat on the embattled boss.