Jose Mourinho pokes City, Arsenal & United

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says his
Premier League winning players have not been
given the credit they deserve and took time to
make fun of the teams that finished below
them on Tuesday.
The 52-year-old Portuguese — whose side
finished the season eight points clear of 2014
champions Manchester City — used the end of
season Chelsea dinner to use a convoluted story
to poke fun at City, Arsenal, who finished third,
and fourth-placed Manchester United.
To a backdrop of a graphic showing a pitch
with two goals he addressed first of all Louis
van Gaal-managed United — the ‘plain red
shirted team’ — saying they would have
preferred to play without goals.
“That team plays really well and the ball goes
and goes and goes and the quality of the ball
possession is really beautiful, but no goals,”
said Mourinho.
“And they ask the international board of FIFA
to play like this, but they were told that it was
not possible, that the bigger percentage of ball
possession doesn’t win matches and they were
not champions.”
City, ‘the sky blue shirted team’, at least wanted
to play with one goal.
“They were fantastic and they scored a lot of
goals and the goals were coming from every
position and they score and they score and
they score, but they never conceded goals,
because no goal.
“Again, the international board told them ‘I’m
sorry, you can’t be champions because football
is with two goals’.”
Vis-a-vis Arsenal, ‘the team with red shirts,
white sleeves’ did want to play with two goals.
“They were scoring some, they were also
conceding some. They were fantastic. They
scored really beautiful goals, they concede some
goals too and they were almost there,” said
Mourinho, who also guided Chelsea to the
League Cup trophy.
“But they asked the international board to play
only between January and April. And they were
told ‘no chance, no chance’.
“You have to play between August and May, so
they couldn’t be champions.”
Which brought him nicely to Chelsea — the
team in blue shirts — and why they had won
the title and not the other three, even harking
back to his days in 2010 as Real coach when he
defended his tactics against Barcelona and
critics accused him of parking the bus in terms
of how many men he put behind the ball.
“They (Chelsea) wanted to play with the normal
rules and they know that to win matches they
had to score one more goal than the opponent,”
said Mourinho.
“How can you do this? By scoring a lot of goals
or not conceding and scoring one.
“And they did it both ways. Scoring a lot,
conceding some. Scoring one goal and
conceding no goals.
“That was the option and lots of goals were
conceding, they played from August till May
and sometimes they brought the bus.”