JOSE MOURINHO branded referee Mike Riley a ‘son of a whore’. He was furious with Riley’s handling of the 3-3 FA Cup quarter-final thriller with Spurs. But Chelsea’s boss claimed the Portuguese phrase ‘filho da puto’ was common and not an insult.Mourinho, who confronted the official in the tunnel at half-time and screamed at him from the touchline in the second half, said: “What I said to him I say to myself, my players and even to the ball when it hits the post.
“For me, it is a normal thing to say in Portuguese. I would say it 50 times during a game. I approached the ref in the tunnel but in a polite way. "I thought he gave too many decisions to Tottenham at free-kicks, though I am not saying he got a big decision wrong.”
It is not MourinhoÂ’s first brush this season with Riley, who refereed the clash with Reading when Petr Cech suffered his fractured skull.
Mourinho insists there is no panic over John TerryÂ’s new contract. Negotiations between the club and the BluesÂ’ skipper, 26, have broken down after an offer of a five-year deal with a four-year option was withdrawn.
Mourinho said: “John is contracted to Chelsea until 2009. Something happened and they are still talking. “If it takes another month or two to get that fixed, then there is no drama.”
Chelsea balked when Terry asked for pay parity with the likes of Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko, who earn around £120,000 a week.