A new report from Corriere dello Sport claims that Jose Mourinho further insulted fourth official Marco Serra, confronting him in the referee’s dressing room and calling him a ‘piece of sh**’. The Giallorossi coach has already been issued with a two-match suspension for his actions in the weekend’s loss to Cremonese, where he was seen angrily exchanging words with Serra before being sent off.
Il Corriere dello Sport give their opinion on the situation, saying Mourinho deserves a ’10 match ban, not 2′ and how the coach has always been a ‘referee-eater’.
The paper also reconstructed the events following the game, and detail how Mourinho was the first to admit that the refereeing had nothing to do with the result, and that his team deserved defeat.
According to their report, a few hours after the match ended, Mourinho had knocked on the door of the referee’s dressing room and was let in. Inside were referee Piccinini’s assistants, a federal inspector, and a few moments later Vito Scala, the Roma coach. Loudly, to be heard by everyone, José vented: ‘The last time I was sent off was at the Olimpico (Roma-Torino), I went to the referee’s dressing room to apologise’. Coincidentally on that occasion the fourth official was the Piccinini, who confirmed the coach’s version of those events.
Mourinho then turned to Serra: ‘If you have the balls, if you are a man, repeat what you said to me on the pitch, then you have to apologise and that’s the end of it’. “Apologise for what?” was the reply “I don’t have to apologise to anyone, I didn’t say anything”. At this point José blurted out, shouting at him several times ‘Liar! You are a piece of shit… Shame on you. I avoid thinking that you are from Turin and on Sunday you don’t want me on the bench against Juve…’. Serra concluded the situation saying: ‘There, I was expecting this, I knew you would make up this story…’.
Mourinho has been banned for Roma’s next two matches against Juventus and Sassuolo but the club are expected to lodge an appeal in the hopes of having the ban reduced.
