Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Premier League bosses should ban referee Chris Foy from officiating a Chelsea game ever again after he sent off two of their players during their 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa.
Willian was seen two yellows in the second-half before Foy produced a straight red for Ramires for a disgusting challenge on Karim El Ahmadi. After sending off the Brazilian, Foy then sent Mourinho to the stands for running onto the pitch to confront him.
After the game, Mourinho refused to speak about the referee as he didn’t want to risk getting into trouble with the FA, but according to reports, he did storm into the referee’s dressing room alongside John Terry straight after the game, which they are not allowed to do.
At full-time of every Premier League match, there is a 30-minute ‘cooling down’ time-slow in which no-one is allowed to communicate with the referees, and according to reports, Mourinho and Terry broke those rules.
Willian and Ramires’ red-cards mean Foy has now sent off six Chelsea players in the last eight matches he has been in charge of which involves The Blues, and Mourinho believes it’s time to ban him from being a ref for Chelsea matches.
Mourinho said: “Maybe it is helpful that the committee doesn’t send him to our matches. I don’t have the right to request that. It’s just that I think they have to analyse the situation and see.
“Every time he has Chelsea – or not every time, but many times he has Chelsea and the problems are there. I think maybe it would be a good decision.”
“Mistakes are part of the job for referees, even big mistakes which are crucial to the result.
“Normally I feel very comfortable to speak about it and say, ‘Good ref, good performance. One mistake against me, one mistake in my favour.’ But this was the kind of referee performance that I don’t want to say one single word about.
“Because if I say the first word I will say 10, 100, 1,000, and I will be charged and accused of bringing the game into disrepute. So I don’t say a word.”
“Mr Foy knew perfectly what he was doing. From minute one, he knew very well what he was doing.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
