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Porto progressed from the group stage of last season’s Champions League without losing any of their fixtures, while also scoring 16 goals and keeping three clean sheets to finish at the top of their group.

“In the end the result is a disappointment but the way we played and the way we responded after this week was excellent”. On the hour Georginio Wijnaldum glanced a header into the far corner of Asmir Begovic’s goal from a Perez corner.

Mourinho claimed he could not answer questions on the three-match ban for violent conduct that has been imposed retrospectively on the striker Diego Costa in the wake of Saturday’s 2-0 win over Arsenal, for fear of incurring a touchline suspension.

“It’s getting harder and harder and that’s why we have to show character to win games and be on top”.

Newcastle forced their way ahead – and deservedly so – three minutes before the break when Ayoze Perez took advantage of indecisive defending to volley home from Vurnon Anita’s cross, and when Georginio Wijnaldum headed home Perez’s 60th-minure corner, a...

“It is an imaginary list but clearly it is there”.

Mourinho even slammed the Frenchman in his pre-match press conference ahead of the tie against Newcastle, suggesting that only one manager in the entire league was not under pressure.

Combatants on both sides will need to focus their attention firmly on the pitch, but if they can go against recent history then Chelsea will aim to prove that their mini-crisis is over. Last season’s player of the year continues to misfire and his decision to blast the...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has belittled Jose Mourinho’s achievements at Chelsea by suggesting Claudio Ranieri laid the foundations for their decade of success.

Tottenham host Manchester City this weekend in the Premier League.

But Mourinho said: “I think it’s time to not speak about it”.

The Brazilian-born Spain worldwide is no stranger to controversy and he attracted a lot of headlines at the weekend for his antics which earned Arsenal defender Gabriel a red card in the Blues’ 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge. The latter later lashed out at the Chelsea man and...

Former Arsenal boss George Graham has warned Diego Costa he faces being targeted by officials after his indiscretions in Chelsea’s 2-0 win over the Gunners on Saturday.