As far as the Dr goes, he's right, she did act rather naively, surely it's up to the referee to bring on the physio. It's his prerogative to remove her from the bench, if he sees fit. And, once again, it has completely removed the team from the criticism and placed all the flak on Mourinho's shoulders.
As to the reaction of opposing fans, you would think she'd been flogged to death, but she hasn't been 'sacked' at all, like most are trying to suggest, she's still employed by Chelsea in the same position she was in, she's just no longer on the bench. Her income hasn't been affected one bit.
Football isn't a popularity contest, it's about winning football matches and all the statistics say he's one of the best at it. Take a look at his history, he's always been like it, and it works for him, it's made him probably the greatest club manager of all time, he would be mad to change it.
Big Ern, come on
Firstly the ref did call her onto the field of play. Are you suggesting that medical staff then look to their manager to get the nod before they go on?
Secondly, I can't believe your glibly defending Morihno by saying, 'its not so bad, she wasn't flogged to death'. No she hasn't been flogged or beaten so we should ll smile and say, well there you go, she's still alive so all is well.
Mate, your ignoring what actually did happen. Morinho, ridiculed a professional associate, called her naive, questioned her intelligence and character on LIVE TV to tens of millions of people watching which was repeatedly reported in the press to tens of millions more.
Her career is now tainted as well as her professional reputation. She will forever have to answer to the accusation of being that naive girl who skipped onto the pitch without permission. She shouldn't have to defend that for the rest of her professional life or are you i disagreement Beg Ern?
According to you though, all Morinho did was deflect attention away from a poor performance by his team, no harm there then? Would you be defending Sam Allerdyce, Alan Pardew or Mark Hughes (read the full list of prem managers here) for doing the same. Allardyce would be ridiculed as old school, sexist and expected to resign, Pardew would be expected to attend an anger management course and would be banned from the bench and Sparkey would be expected to attend over 100 hrs community service, and Morinho well, its ok, he's the special one.
I'm not questioning Morinhos credentials Big Ern so there was no need for a history lesson. All I have said is that I believe he is under pressure and this pressure manifest itself in him lashing out in an uncontrolled and spontaneous rant on live TV. There was no hiding behind veiled innuendo as usuall and there was no 'joke' in his response.
Nothing suggests he deflected anything away from his team, its you who continue stretching that myth Big Ern. On the contrary, Morinho instead of deflecting attention has effectively drawn a spotlight onto Chelsea and a search light onto himself. He and his team are under far more pressure through scrutiny than they would have been if he came out and said,
'It was an exciting game, we were off the pace today and not at our best but this will be addressed in training' I doubt his team would be facing the scrutiny and pressure they are now simply because the special one messed up. Do you still seriously believe that deflection was Morinhos intention Big Ern?