Jose Mourinho has
blamed Newcastle's ball
boys for ending Chelsea's
unbeaten start to the
season with what he
perceived as time-
wasting at St James' Park on Saturday.
A double from substitute Papiss Cisse put the
hosts ahead and, despite the Magpies being
reduced to 10 men and Didier Drogba scoring
with time to spare, the Blues were unable to
find a late equaliser to cling into their record.
And the Portuguese boss was furious with
the home side's ball boys and their delaying
tactics, even suggesting that the match
officials should have awarded more than the
six minutes of stoppage time that was added
on.
"We wanted to play more football, but that
was not possible because a few things that I
thought didn't belong any more to top level
football but still belongs - the ball disappears,
the ball doesn't come, another ball comes, the
ball boys they run away," Mourinho told BT
Sport.
"These are the kinds of situation which our
unfortunately still part of the game. You didn't
see that the ball disappeared? They keep the
ball, they hide the ball, we want to play, no
ball. When one ball comes the second ball
appears again. This kind of strategy.
He added to BBC Sport: "My team lost the way I
like to lose which is to give everything and
being unlucky. Only one team played to win.
After the second goal the team lost their
emotional balance. A point was the minimum
we deserved.
"There could have been 20 minutes stoppage
time but the situation would have been the
same because things were happening outside
the four lines that the referee couldn't control.
"The referee can't punish the ball boy who
disappeared with the ball, the referee couldn't
punish the people in the crowd who kept the
ball. I'm not obsessed with records and
statistics, that's not for me, I want to win the
league."
The loss ends Chelsea's hopes of emulating
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal 'Invincibles', but they
remain top of the league, ahead of second-
placed Manchester City.

is he Jonathan junior brother.
Blaming others for your problems

Always having excuses. Is defeat not part of football?

The last match when he drew,he said something like "my boys are relaxing"(not verbatim) . . I mean,so many silly excuses

Story for the gods...