Unhappy: Jose Mourinho, Head Coach of AS Roma, was sent off after a row with a fourth official. Photo: Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
Unhappy: Jose Mourinho, Head Coach of AS Roma, was sent off after a row with a fourth official. Photo: Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
Roma coach Jose Mourinho will be banned for two games and fined €10,000 for his explosive reaction to being sent off in his side's 2-1 defeat by relegation-threatened Cremonese, an Italian sports judge ruled.
Cremonese claimed their first win of the Serie A season on Tuesday as Daniel Ciofani's late penalty left Mourinho's side out of the Champions League places, fifth in the standings.
Mourinho, who was given his marching orders by referee Marco Piccinini at the start of the second half for dissent, said his reaction was caused by his treatment from the fourth official.
"I'm emotional but not crazy. For the first time in my career a referee has spoken to me in an unjustifiable way," said the former Chelsea manager.
"To have the reaction I had is because something happened. I need to know now if I can do something from a disciplinary point of view.
"Unfortunately, the fourth official doesn't have the honesty to say what he said to me, how he said it and the way he treated me, which obviously triggered my reaction.
"I want to see if there's an audio recording of what he said to me.
"I don't want to get into the fact that he's from Turin, that we have to play Juventus and he wants me off the touchline. I don't want to get into that. I want to get into the fact that for the first time in my career, a referee, and in this case a fourth official, spoke to me in an unacceptable way."
The 60-year-old added that he would seek legal advice.
Mourinho's punishment was for "having vehemently and provocatively contested a referee's decision in the second half, and repeating such behaviour at the time of the expulsion," a Serie A statement said.
"For having also, at the end of the match, entered the referee's dressing room, although authorised to do so, and having addressed seriously offensive expressions and inferences to the fourth official," the statement added.
Mourinho is set to miss Roma's home league games against Juventus on Sunday and Sassuolo on March 12.
The Portuguese was previously sent off in September against Atalanta and in November against Torino, both for outbursts over decisions against his side.