Manager defends Chelsea’s penalty complaint article

Jose Mourinho has defended an article that appeared on Chelsea’s official website, entitled ‘Penalty puzzle’, highlighting the club's lack of penalty decisions favouring them this season.

The Blues noted that the they have been awarded just two penalties in the Premier League all season and compared that tally with previous campaigns and other top teams in England.

In the article on Chelsea's website, it was concluded that the amount of penalties Chelsea have been awarded 'seems abnormally low' and Mourinho insists that the article was 'very objective', and revealed he wondered why so much attention was  afforded to it.

“You give so much importance to that article, I read it.  It’s not an opinion article, it’s not something that can lead to discussion. It’s numbers," Mourinho told reporters.

“It’s like stats, how many goals, assists. The number of teams a penalty has against is just another stat, it’s not open to opinion, it’s just numbers, pure numbers and nothing more than that.”

Mourinho also rebuffed the suggestion that the article was part of a wider agenda, insisting that “the numbers always tell the truth”, and denied that it could work against his team.

“Against us... it’s working since the beginning of the season so it doesn’t change. In favour I don’t believe either; it’s just an article with numbers. How many goals, how many clean sheets a team has, how many assists. No agendas, no intention, it’s just numbers.”