Chelsea’s former doctor Eva Carneiro has taken aim at Jose Mourinho after he stood by his alleged verbal abuse of her in his new documentary.
Mourinho has refused to apologise to Carneiro for their infamous touchline row which saw him allegedly brand her a ‘daughter of a whore’ in Portuguese.
In his Netflix docu-series ‘MOURINHO’, he justifies his behaviour in the flashpoint which occurred against Swansea City in 2015 when Carneiro and physio Jon Fearn ran on the pitch to treat Eden Hazard, who had seemingly gone down injured.
Now Carneiro has said on X: ’11 years on and here we are reliving the worst. Hope they made some money.’
She also hit out at John Terry, who stood by Mourinho in the documentary, saying: ‘We are bound by a medico-legal code of conduct. Genuinely it would be healthy for John Terry to learn the rules of the game. It’s been long enough mate.’
In a separate post, she added: ‘So it is really simple. Referee Michael Oliver called us on TWICE, player Eden Hazard requested medical assistance, we then made eye contact from side line and he confirmed he needed medical assistance, TWICE. At that point my hands are bound as a medical professional.’
Chelsea’s former doctor Eva Carneiro has had a dig at Jose Mourinho after he refused to apologise for their spat in his new documentary
Carneiro and Mourinho clashed in 2015 when she went on the pitch to treat Eden Hazard
Mourinho hit the roof when Carneiro and physio Jon Fearn went onto the pitch to treat Eden Hazard, who had gone down seemingly injured.
He called her ‘impulsive and naive’ in his first public reaction to her decision to treat Hazard. She was then dropped from first-team duties and left the club just a month later.
Mourinho and Chelsea eventually agreed a settlement after Carneiro took them to a tribunal over claims that she was discriminated against by the manager, and constructively dismissed by the club.
Eleven years on, Mourinho believes he treated Carneiro in the same manner that he would treat a male doctor.
‘For me, a lady doctor is the same as a man’s doctor,’ Mourinho said in the docu-series. ‘So, as always, I use my vocabulary when I’m not happy.
‘There are words in moments where the tension is very, very high. Normally, people with football culture, with football DNA, with football background, they go over it in one second. In that case, it was different.’
Hazard, who played under the now-63-year-old for two years, claimed ‘it was nothing special’ in the documentary, which is set to air on Tuesday, but ‘with Jose everything is bigger’.
Footage shows that the Portuguese coach, who is now Real Madrid manager, shouted a whole host of expletives toward Carneiro and Fearn as they treated Hazard. He screamed phrases such as ‘f*** off, man’ and ‘f*** you, man’.
Mourinho has spoken up about the incident for the first time in over a decade in Netflix’s new three-part docu-series MOURINHO
‘I’m not a doctor, but my eyes know when a player is injured, and they know when a player is not injured,’ Mourinho said in the docu-series.
‘I knew that he was not injured, but the doctors went to the pitch, and in that moment we were left with nine players.’
Hazard was forced to come off the pitch for a brief period, as is the rule when a player receives medical treatment, leaving Chelsea with nine men after Thibaut Courtois had been sent off.
Terry, who was Chelsea’s captain during both of Mourinho’s stints at Stamford Bridge, claimed it was well known by both players and staff that the manager did not want team doctor’s to attend to players unless the injuries looked serious.
Speaking in MOURINHO, he said: ‘Medically, he would say unless it’s really, really bad, then they’re [the team doctors] not coming on. That was the understanding for us as players; the medical staff, everyone bought into that.
‘It was a big moment obviously and he took a lot of backlash for that. There was a lot of heat on the football club.’
Chelsea gave Dr Carneiro an unreserved apology, but Mourinho refused to say sorry and grinned as he left the tribunal.
A deal was done in a back corridor of the court and Chelsea then issued a statement saying it ‘regretted the circumstances’ which led to the former club doctor leaving and ‘apologises unreservedly to her and her family for the distress caused’.
The terms of the settlement remain secret, but during the tribunal it was revealed that Chelsea had previously offered £1.2million to silence Carneiro.
Mourinho did not apologise after the incident or at the tribunal and there were no signs of an apology in the docu-series either.
The three-part documentary combs through the career of Mourinho, covering the various highs and lows from his three decades in the professional game, from his winning mentality and undeniable ability to secure silverware to his many, many controversies.
Terry and Frank Lampard are just two of a host of Mourinho’s former players who provide anecdotes and insight into the manager, who has won 26 major trophies during his career on the touchline.
