Mourinho’s conduct in focus after doctor row
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AFTER only one weekend of the English Premier League season, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is in familiar territory: Embroiled in an irrational dispute and his conduct being denounced.
The unexpected target of Mourinho’s ire is the club doctor, whose misdeed appears to be her eagerness to race onto the field to treat an apparently injured player.
Eva Carneiro is set to lose her match-day role on the Chelsea bench after Mourinho publicly criticized the actions of his medical staff following the opening-day draw with Swansea City.
In stoppage time, with Chelsea already down to 10 men after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off, Eden Hazard was brought down at Stamford Bridge.
The immediate reaction from Carneiro and physiotherapist Jon Fearn was to leave the bench to treat Hazard. The protocol — designed to limit time-wasting by teams — required the winger to leave the field for a short time, leaving Chelsea with only nine players as the Premier League champion chased a winner.
“I was unhappy with my medical staff. They were impulsive and naive,” Mourinho said later. “Whether you are a kit man, doctor or secretary on the bench you have to understand the game.”
Amid public scrutiny of Mourinho’s decision to blame the setback at the start of Chelsea’s title defense on his medical staff, Carneiro wrote a rare social media posting.
“I would like to thank the general public for their overwhelming support,” Carneiro wrote on her verified Facebook account. “Really very much appreciated.”
Now it is widely reported that Carneiro’s responsibilities will be downgraded with the Gibraltar-born medic losing her role around matches and training sessions.
Carneiro, who has worked for UK Athletics, is owed an apology by Mourinho, according to former Liverpool medical chief Peter Brukner.
“Our first priority as doctors and physio is the health and safety of the individual player, and that’s what they were attending to,” Brukner said. “They were doing their job and they’ve been criticized very publicly.”
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