‘Mind your own fu**** business’ - Mourinho in EPIC rant after shock Roma loss

Carlo Garganese

• 1 Mar 2023 10:30 GMT
• 4 min read

Jose Mourinho delivered one of the most epic rants of his career after Roma’s shock defeat to Cremonese on Tuesday.

The Giallorossi fell to a 2-1 away defeat against Serie A’s bottom team.

To make matters worse, Cremonese had not won a single Serie A game all season as they look almost certain to be relegated straight back down to Serie B.

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During the game Mourinho was sent off after a row with fourth official Marco Serra. It was his third red card this season.

According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Mourinho was told by Serra to “mind your own f**king business” when he asked for an explanation over a clash between Marash Kumbulla and Frank Tsadjout.

This prompted a furious response by Mourinho. It is then alleged that after being red carded, Serra told Mourinho that “they all take the p*ss out of you, go home.”

Mourinho let rip about the incident at full time, peddling conspiracy theories and threatening legal action.

What did Mourinho say?

“I am emotional, but not crazy,” Mourinho roared.

“In order to react the way I did, something had to happen first. I need to understand if I can take any legal action.

Piccinini gave me a red card, because unfortunately the fourth official does not have the capacity to understand what he said to me.

“I want to find out if there is an audio recording. I don’t want to get into the fact that Serra is from Turin and on Sunday we are playing against Juventus.

“For the first time in my career, a fourth official spoke to me in the most incredible way. It was unjustifiable. At the end of the game, I went to speak to them. Piccinini, who was the fourth official in the last game when I was sent off, told me to apologise to Serra. I told Serra he should have the courage to explain what happened, but he had memory problems.”

When asked what Serra had said, Mourinho again threatened legal action: “I prefer for everything to be done in public.”

Roma’s loss has opened a slight door for Juventus in the race for the top four. The Giallorossi are nine points ahead of the Bianconeri but the two teams play on Sunday at the Stadio Olimpico - a game in which Mourinho will be suspended for now.

“I cannot leave this game behind now, I cannot even think about Sunday. There is frustration, which obliges me to analyse,” Mourinho said.

“It is a pity this thing happened with Serra: I respect someone as much as they respect me.”

The FIGC have opened an investigation into the incident, with Mourinho now risking a long ban.