Spurs manager Jose Mourinho branded Southampton coach “an idiot” after his team suffered 1-0 loss at St. Mary’s Stadium.
He was booked for a yellow card by Mike Dean in 77 minutes after he entered Southampton technical area and allegedly taking a peek at opposition’s notes.
“I clearly deserved the yellow card as I was rude,” Mourinho said after the game.
“But I was rude to an idiot. Because I was rude I deserved the yellow card.”
Spurs condeded in 17 minutes through Danny Ings who scored his 13th goal of the season.
But Mourinho was not particularly fond with VAR during the game.
“For me, at this moment, the referees are not the referees,” he said. “VAR should be called video referees. Our [disallowed] goal I also don’t know, but I confess that I didn’t watch it yet.
“What I know is that the Dele Alli penalty was a penalty and the VAR didn’t interfere. Then they interfered in the analysis of a penalty that from 75 yards away I knew was not a penalty.
“I think they gave the VAR analysis to try to make us blind about the penalty that was a penalty. They decide not even to analyse on the VAR. This is going in a very bad direction.”
Mourinho was also frustrated by a series of injuries during the game, which saw his captain Harry Kane and Tanguy Ndombele unable to continue to play.
“Ndombele is always injured,” Mourinho said. “He’s injured, he’s not injured, he plays one match. We are full of hopes and this is since the beginning of the season.
“Of course it is a concern, you think you have a player, you think the player is in an evolution process, he plays very well against Norwich, you think today he is ready for it and he is not ready for it.”
“It is negative, hamstring is always negative. Is it a tear, is it a small thing, is it a spasm, is it a contraction? At this moment I cannot say.”
The defeat saw Spurs remain on 30 points, six behind fourth-placed Chelsea.