Spurs manager Jose Mourinho branded Southampton coach “an idiot” after his team suffered 1-0 loss at St. Mary’s Stadium.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“I clearly deserved the yellow card as I was rude,” Mourinho said after the game.<\/p>\n
“But I was rude to an idiot. Because I was rude I deserved the yellow card.”<\/p>\n
Spurs condeded in 17 minutes through Danny Ings who scored his 13th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
But Mourinho was not particularly fond with VAR during the game.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
The defeat saw Spurs remain on 30 points, six behind fourth-placed Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"