Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been charged
with improper conduct by the Football Association
for his behaviour in the win against Cardiff on
Saturday.
Mourinho was ordered from the technical area by
referee Anthony Taylor after protesting about apparent
time-wasting, and sat with supporters in the stand.
"I don't know why the referee stopped me doing my
work," the Portuguese said before the charge was
announced.
The 50-year-old has until 18:00 BST on 24 October to
respond to the charge.
Mourinho spent the last 20 minutes sitting among
supporters behind the Chelsea dugout after his
dismissal.
"To be with the fans was not funny," Mourinho said in
Dusseldorf airport ahead of Tuesday's Champions
League group match with Schalke.
"It is frustrating. You want to communicate with the
players and you couldn't do it."
Mourinho's dismissal was not the only moment of
controversy in the match, after Eden Hazard scored
Chelsea's equaliser in the eventual 4-1 victory when
Samuel Eto'o kicked the ball away as Bluebirds
goalkeeper David Marshall bounced it.
According to Fifa rules, the Cameroonian's actions
should have been given as a foul, but referee Taylor
incorrectly allowed play to continue.
When asked about the incident, Mourinho, who
refused to carry out media duties at the weekend,
preferred to concentrate on apparent time-wasting
from Malky Mackay's side.
He said in Germany: "If I was in that game and I was
paying my ticket, I would be worried with the fact that
every time the ball was out or stopped and our
opponent had to put the ball back in the game, it took
a median (average) of 21.5 seconds. That is a waste of
money.
"When you multiply that by the number of times the
game was stopped, you pay for 90 minutes but you
see 55 or 60. For me, that's breaking the rules."
Mourinho insisted Eto'o's interception was an
"intelligent action", and disagreed with Fifa's law 12,
governing the incident.
"If, in this moment, Fifa says that it's a foul, it's a
foul," he continued.
"But I think Samuel did well. Maybe the referee did
wrong, I don't know to be fair. But in my opinion, that
should be allowed as it was for years. No contact with
the goalkeeper.
"The goalkeeper has six seconds to have the ball. They
had almost half a minute. That's breaking the rules."
Mourinho was last ordered to the stands in May, when
Real Madrid manager. He protested after a decision
went against his team in the Copa del Rey final defeat
by city rivals Atletico.
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