Mourinho loses appeal against £50000 fine, stadium ban

Mourinho was given the ban for a misconduct charge after being sent to the stands at half-time of his side’s 2-1 defeat by West Ham last month.

The Portuguese, who also has a suspended stadium ban and a £40,000 fine for a separate comments made after the loss to Southampton, will travel with his team to the Brittania Stadium but will not be allowed inside the ground.

“Mr Mourinho asked me about a tackle, an offside and a goal-line clearance”.

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

“After this I asked him to leave the dressing room area”. After he refused again I asked the security officer to escort him from the room.

“Mourinho hinted that he is being treated differently to other managers, citing Jurgen Klopp’s animated reactions during Liverpool’s 3-1 win at Stamford Bridge last weekend as a “message” from the FA”. He is understood to have said to Moss, “Arsene Wenger was right, you are f– soft”.

Stoke City boss Mark Hughes is unsure how Jose Mourinho’s stadium ban is going to be monitored during Saturday’s match. “I know the situation where I am in relation to the football power in this country and I have to adapt”. But from my point of view I want to be out of it, let the game tomorrow finish and that is it.

“It is stupid to fight a fight that you know you will already lose”.

“If I can not contact with the game maybe I don’t even watch the game”.

Asked whether he would be watching the game anywhere, he said: “I have no plans [to watch]”.

A bristly Mourinho refused to confirm at his Friday news conference whether he had indeed defied a stadium ban in 2005 by hiding in a laundry basket during a Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich.

“No. No temptation”, Mourinho added.

With another ban possibly looming, Mourinho fears more Premier League managers will suffer the same fate. “I have to get out of the bus before”, he said.

Regardless, the manager says his collection of assistants, lead by Rui Faria and Steve Holland are prepared and ready to take charge and lead the team to a positive result.

Mourinho was angry that his side were not awarded a penalty early in the second half, with the game all square, when striker Radamel Falcao went down under Saints goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg’s challenge and was booked for diving.