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Mourinho watched his side lose a 23-game unbeaten run on Saturday.

'You may as well put a cow in the middle of the pitch!' - Mourinho blasts Newcastle tactics

The Chelsea boss slated Alan Pardew’s side after the Blues’ first defeat of the season.

JOSE MOURINHO HAS lambasted Newcastle’s tactics as “parking a cow” after the Magpies inflicted upon Chelsea their first defeat of the season on Saturday.

Didier Drogba’s late strike could not spark a revival after Papiss Cisse’s double sealed a 2-1 win for Alan Pardew’s men at St James’ Park, but the Portuguese boss took issue with the hosts’ style of play.

Mourinho slated the physicality of Newcastle’s players and the lackadaisical approach of the ball-boys when deep into six minutes of added time.

However, when asked whether he would employ a similar stance to ensure victory, the Blues boss said: “No. With anything? You may as well put a cow in the middle of the pitch. And then stop the game because there was a cow.

“You cannot do just anything in football. You have to defend with your 10 men, put the 10 men on the goal line, park the bus, but football needs a ball. Not two or zero. Do what you can to win but not everything.Sometimes there were zero balls and that cuts the dynamic of the team who is trying to win the game.”

Mourinho’s men remain at the summit of the Premier League with a three-point lead over second-placed Manchester City, and he is sure his men will recover from their first real setback in 2014-15.

“Better than anyone else,” he said when asked to assess how Chelsea have been playing. “And of course I will back them to bounce back. We are top of the league.

For people like me who have been in football for so long you have to accept this anomaly. To come here and be better than our opponents and lose, that is football.

“Nobody has done better than us. Everyone would like to be in our position. So we are more than fine. We are better than anybody else.

“I don’t say my team is the best, I say my team is top of the league and at this moment nobody has the same points we have.

“Because of that at the moment we’re the best team in the Premier League.”

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:06 AM

    With such a long unbeaten run I’ve almost forgotten what a sore loser jose is.

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    Mute Dylan Moran
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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:04 AM

    Or maybe park a bus in front of the goal. Who does that again? Oh yeah Chelsea. He’s such a hypocrite its embarrassing

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:12 AM

    What about the weather , ref , crowd , pitch , the ball Jose ? #bitterballs

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:08 AM

    As gracious as always, well done Jose.

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:07 AM

    Haha job for him. Some hypocrite it’s actually embarrassing

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:10 AM

    pot ,kettle black arse,he is fuming that his great side never even got close to equaling his nemisis Wengers unbeaten season!!thats it in a nutshell!!!

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:44 AM

    Couldn’t agree more with all the comments did the exact same thing last yr in the champions league what a hypocrite

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:41 AM

    What a bitter little man.

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:34 AM

    Because he parked the bus against Liverpool last season….

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    Dec 8th 2014, 10:35 AM

    *never

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    Dec 8th 2014, 1:22 PM

    Is jose actually serious here? Was he not the manager of Chelsea last year too? Against Liverpool not only did he have the feckin cow in the middle of the pitch, he abandoned the cattle trailer in the 6 yard box ffs!

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    Dec 8th 2014, 11:08 AM

    It’s confirmed . Mourinho is a muppet

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    Mute Dave O'Hanlon
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    Dec 8th 2014, 11:06 AM

    Last season they got results away to all the big clubs by parking a cow and then he did his hypocritical rant at Sam Allardyce for doing something similar against Chelsea. Please Mario bring back Special One TV

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    Dec 8th 2014, 2:04 PM

    Jose up to his tricks again. Deflecting the attention away from his team. It’s clear if they have a few injuries to matic and maybe terry and cahill they could struggle

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    Dec 8th 2014, 6:59 PM

    Jose has a short memory. That’s all Chelsea did last season. #hypocrite

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    Dec 8th 2014, 6:44 PM

    He seemed magnanimous on match of the day. Said he lost the way he likes to lose, ref had a good game and his side played well.

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