Jose Mourinho: Chelsea manager furious at lack of LMA support

Mourinho the only manager to be have stadium ban for comments made about officials

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is said to be furious at the League Managers' Association (LMA) over the union's lack of support.

The Portuguese is under intense pressure to remain in charge at Stamford Bridge with the defending champions down in 16th place in the Premier League after a terrible start to the season that has brought just three wins in 12 matches.

Chelsea have won just one of their last five matches in all competitions while Mourinho has garnered public criticism and action from the Football Association after various altercations over the course of the campaign.

But Mourinho, according to the Daily Mirror, is upset with the LMA after they failed to speak out in support after his stadium ban and fine last week, which he felt was too heavy a penalty.

Mourinho, who is likely to scale back his support for the organisation, believes that they don't do enough to help members, bar issuing statements of support when managers are sacked.

The 52-year-old feels that he has been left to fight his battles alone.

Mourinho is one of only two managers to have recieved a stadium ban from the Football Association (FA) - the other being Alan Pardew after he headbutted Hull midfielder David Meyler while in charge of Newcastle; no other managers have recevied a ban for their comments.

Before the Stoke match Mourinho said he will keep an eye on whether the FA increase the amount of stadium bans they hand out.

"The dimension of the punishment opens a range of situations that I can imagine, in the future, we are going to have lots of managers with stadium bans because a stadium ban should relate to something really, really serious in terms of aggression - but words I don’t want to lose," he said last week

"This stadium ban is connected to words. To complaints. So, I imagine it’s open, in the future, for the stadium ban to happen much more times unless we have our Association or other Associations around Europe questioned in a very serious and legal way about the rights of the managers and the dimension of the stadium ban."

Mourinho still has a suspended stadium ban hanging over him from the comments made after the defeat at home to Southampton, where he suggested that officials were "afraid" to give his team decisions.

It will be activated if Mourinho again speaks out against referees in the next 12 months.