CHEATS CHEATS CHEATS

Last updated : 18 January 2005 By editor

The Football Association will write to Chelsea and ask them for their observations concerning manager Jose Mourinho's outspoken comments about Manchester United's players last week.

The FA will follow their standard procedure in dealing with such cases and the Barclays Premiership leaders will be required to furnish the governing body with an explanation for the ‘cheat’ remarks made by the Chelsea manager on the club's own TV channel last week.

A spokesman for the FA told the Press Association today: 'The matter is still under consideration.'

Mourinho has already escaped action from the FA for his post-match comments concerning the half-time discussion conducted down the tunnel by Barry and United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

But he re-ignited the issue on Chelsea TV, when he branded United's players 'cheats'.

He said: 'Sir Alex was really clever, if you can say that, at half-time by putting some pressure on the ref. In the second half, it was whistle and whistle, fault and fault and cheat and cheat.'