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- I made 11 mistakes!'Said Mourinho after 2 Goal Blast
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Mourinho admitted later he had ‘smelt’ defeat at half-time and he castigated his players, declaring: ‘I made 11 wrong team choices; I made 11 mistakes today. |
| Yoan Gouffran celebrates the header that gave Newcastle all three points over Chelsea |
'I’ve been in this game many years and I was smelling what was going to happen. I did not like my team today. When one team is not there they normally lose and that’s what happened to us today. We lacked everything really.’
Deep in thought and, no doubt, admiration, Jose Mourinho spent 10 minutes of the half-hour before kick-off standing alone, captivated by the ghosts of Newcastle United’s glorious past.
One by one, the faded photographs hanging in the entrance corridor of the likes of Hughie Gallacher, Stan Seymour and Frank Hudspeth, players in United’s last title-winning side 86 years ago, were perused by the Chelsea manager.
The portraits of Yoan Gouffran and Loic Remy may never join such exalted company, but that does not mean Mourinho will forget their faces. Joyous scenes after the Frenchmen grabbed the 68th and 89th-minute goals which prevented Chelsea climbing, albeit briefly, to the top of the Premier League table would have long since transcended those pre-match images.
