Posted on 02/25/2025 4:31:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Portuguese coach, who once declared himself to be "the Special One," was fined and suspended earlier in the season for a tirade against local match officials and the league Turkish football club Galatasaray announced it would launch "criminal proceedings" against Jose Mourinho on Monday, accusing the manager of rival Istanbul club Fenerbahçe of making "racist comments" after a Turkish league game in which the clubs drew 0-0.
Galatasaray hit out at Mourinho after the Portuguese coach made comments about Turkish referees and the Galatasaray bench during a post-match interview on Monday. During a press conference, 62-year-old Mourinho said he welcomed the decision to bring in a foreign referee for the game and also praised referee Slavko Vinčić of Slovenia for a “top performance".
Mourinho claimed he'd gone to see Vinčić to thank him following the game, but when he saw the fourth official — a Turkish referee — he told him: “If you (were) the referee (it) would be a disaster.” When he was asked about a challenge early in the match, Mourinho commented that a Turkish referee would have reacted with a yellow card “after the big dive and their bench jumping around like monkeys.”
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Galatasaray VS Fenerbahçe
It’s like West Side Story
Like Rangers VS Celtic.
Sounds like a lot of Istanbul.
It’s no one’s business but the Turks. 😜
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