On Saturday, February 19, Italian manager Jose Mourinho was involved in yet another spat with the centre referee for AS Roma’s home match against Verona.
Mourinho made a gesture to the referee, insinuating that he had been influenced to swing the match in his opponent’s favour.
This was the second time the manager, who has a penchant of controversies, has been sent off this season.
Teamkenya.co.ke looks at some of his controversial moments:
Touchline Spat with Arsene Wenger
In October 2014, Mourinho, then at the helm of Chelsea, was involved in a touchline brawl with the then Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
The brawl came after Chelsea’s Garry Cahill had come into a tough challenge with Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez.
A push and shove then ensued between the two managers, who would later in the week apologize for the incident.
Spat with his Team Doctor Eva Carneiro
In August 2015, while at Chelsea, Mourinho clashed with his Team Doctor, Eva Carneiro, who would later lose her role at the club.
Carneiro had run onto the pitch to treat Eden Hazard, who had picked up a knock that Mourinho felt wasn’t that serious.
Mourinho took issue with Carneiro’s decision to run onto the pitch since Chelsea were already a man less after their goalkeeper’s sending off. Eva’s actions, therefore, meant that Hazard would have had to be temporarily taken off, further exposing their defense.
Despite Mou’s open castigation of Eva as she came back to the technical area, Chelsea fans came to her support, sending goodwill messages.
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Poking Barca Manager Tito Vilanova in the eye
While at Real Madrid in 2012, Jose Mourinho came face to face with the then Barcelona Manager Tito Vilanova, now deceased.
He poked Tito in the eye with his finger, with Tito retaliating with a slap, in a brawl that came after their high-tempered match.
The two were handed suspensions, a one-match touchline ban for Tito and a two-match ban for Mourinho.
Laundry Basket
In 2005, while in charge of Chelsea, successfully went round a two-match suspension in bizarre style.
He was not supposed to be in the dressing room, nor on the touchline. However, he came into the dressing room over six hours before his team came into the stadium, just so that no one would notice him.
After giving his pre-match team talk, he was stowed away by the team’s kit manager in a laundry basket, oblivious of the risk of suffocating. No one noticed, in the end.
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Running down the touchline
On several occasions, Mou has been spotted running down the touchline, when his team scores, from the technical area to the corner flag where the celebrating players run to.
This, he has admitted, is not only an emotional run of joy, but he often runs to his teammates to issue new team tactics now that they scored.
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