JOSE WILL KEEP CALLING REFS ‘WEAK AND NAIVE’

JOSE MOURINHO intends to taunt the FA and Arsene Wenger by using the words ‘weak’ and ‘ naive’ to describe referees he believes underperform.

The Chelsea manager is facing UEFA sanctions for using the terms to describe Slovenian referee Damir Skomina after he declined to award his team a first-half penalty during the 0-0 Champions League draw with Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday.

The Portuguese’s use of vocabulary is understood to be a calculated move. As Mourinho (below) pointed out last week, Arsenal manager Wenger escaped FA punishment after describing Mike Dean’s performance as weak and naive in Chelsea’s controversial win over the Gunners earlier last month.

Having not punished Wenger for his comments after the clash at Stamford Bridge, when Gabriel and Santi Cazorla were sent off but Diego Costa controversially escaped a red card, the FA risk being accused of double standards if they sanction Mourinho for saying the same.

Last week the Chelsea manager was fined £50,000 with a suspended stadium ban for comments made about referee Bob Madley following his side’s defeat by Southampton.

Meanwhile, former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann could be next on the receiving end of a Jose blast after the German claimed Mourinho was ‘ begging for the sack’. Chelsea’s poor start to the season has piled huge pressure on the Portuguese manager and even led Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to consider his future.

‘Some of the stuff Mourinho is coming out with at the moment and over recent weeks is not far from a meltdown,’ Hamann told talkSPORT.

‘I don’t know what’s going on with the owner and what the circumstances are, but to me at times it looks like he’s begging for the sack.

‘The thing that worries me about Chelsea is that he seems to be falling out with all the players. If you want to get a reaction from a player and you put him on the bench like he did with ( Eden) Hazard the other day, it’s not a problem. ‘But you don’t bring him on in the 89th minute to humiliate him and embarrass him even further. And he’s done it with most of the players.

‘ Branislav Ivanovic has been labelled as a player who hasn’t performed this season, which may be true, but if you do it with one or two players to get a reaction, that’s fair enough, but I think he has done it to most of them now.

‘If you want to be successful, come Saturday Mourinho can’t score the goals. You need your players, your main players, on board.’ Hamann also criticised Mourinho’s treatment of John Terry, saying: ‘Terry was humiliated after the Manchester City game when Mourinho said: “I’ve backed him through thick and thin and I can do whatever I want with him”.

‘No, no, he’s not an it, he’s a player who has been the heart of that Chelsea team for the past 15 years.

‘If I look into the Chelsea dressing room now, do I think the majority of players would like to see the back of him? Yes, I think they would.’

However, Nemanja Matic denies his relationship with Mourinho is at breaking point, despite being replaced just 28 minutes after being sent on as a substitute against Southampton and dropped for last weekend’s win over Aston Villa.

He returned to the starting XI on Tuesday and said: ‘ Because all coaches respect that I am very professional, I do my best. So with Mourinho it is the same.

‘He knows he can count on me always. He respects that, I respect not only him but all coaches which I’ve had.’