YOU CAN SYMPATHISE WITH MOURINHO BUT YOU CAN'T CONDONE HIS ACTIONS

Chelsea’s nemanja matic was sent off at west ham at the weekend, but mark Halsey feels the Serbian midfielder should have been allowed to stay on the pitch, Jose mourinho found himself banished to the director’s box at Upton park on Saturday after another run-in with the officials and though I don’t think you can blame referee Jon moss, I do have some sympathy with the Chelsea boss.

Nemanja matic’s first caution is a yellow card. He’s stopped a promising attack, and that’s no problem.however,with the second yellow card, I think Jon could have managed that situation a lot better. A careless challenge is a free kick only while a reckless challenge warrants a yellow card.

Matic’s challenge was careless and clumsy. The only time you get a yellow card for a careless challenge is if you are stopping a promising attack. The incident took place right out on the touchline with Chelsea players in the vicinity. Was that denying west ham a promising attack? You would have say it wasn’t.

Every foul is not a yellow card. I don’t think Jon was going to caution him, and the assistant, harry Leonard, has influenced his decision making. These guys who are the assistants don’t referee at this level, they referee at non-league level where it’s totally different. Its about managing the event and managing the players. There is some situations that you cannot manage.

But if Jon had have just given a free kick no one would have said anything. You only have to compare the decision with arsenal-Ever ton game and Gareth Barry red card. He deserved his first caution as he stopped a promising attack while his second yellow was deserved because kieran Gibbs has put the ball past him, and had he not brought him down he was going into the box and he would have put it across the face of the goal.

That is denying arsenal a promising attack.if you compare that with matic, the referee has to have some empathy for the game. There is far too many cheap second yellow cards that could be avoided.i am not saying Jon was wrong- I just felt he could have manged the situation better being an elite referee at that level and an official with more experience may well have handled it differently.

In the aftermath, mourinho will obviously have felt that things were going against them with the red card and cesc fabregas’s offside goal where you could argue he was level, but as much as we all love Jose mourinho, he should have known better having just received that hefty fine and suspended one-match ban. He barged into the referee’s dressing room at half time, and he knows you can’t speak to the officials at the break. He feels things aren't going for him, but you can’t condone his actions.