Jose Mourinho has blasted referee Anthony Taylor and called him "a f** disgrace" in a car park following last night's Europa League final.
Mourinho's Roma side were defeated on penalties by Sevilla who claimed their 7th win in the competition. After the match video footage emerged of a visibly angered Mourinho berating referee Taylor in the underground car park of the Puskas Arena in Budapest.
The former Chelsea boss seemingly walks over to Taylor, who is not in shot, and laments him in an explicit rant. Mourinho began hammering him in English, before switching between other languages to make his feelings known. Taylor's most controversial decision was to demand a retake in the penalty shootout - a decision made by VAR - which allowed Sevilla's Gonzalo Montiel to dispatch the winning penalty.
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The Argentine had missed his original attempt but Roma goalkeeper Rui Patricio had been judged to have come off his line. Roma had missed two of their three penalties and Montiel's effort ensured a dominant shootout victory as the Spaniards won 4-1.
Mourinho was also adamant that Erik Lamela, who scored his penalty, should've been sent-off before the shootout as he accused Taylor of appearing to be Spanish, such was his decision making.
He told Sky Sports Italia: “What I said is we either leave here with the Cup or we leave dead. Well, we’re dead. We’re dead tired physically, dead tired mentally, dead because we think it is an unjust defeat with lots of incidents that are debatable.
“We are dead tired, but proud. I always say you can lose a football match, but never your dignity or professionalism. I won five European finals, I lost this one, but I return home prouder than ever this time. The lads gave absolutely everything this season.”
The Special One also added: “We care about the shirt, we care about our nature, we take things seriously, work with humility and give everything we have to give. Each of us react in a different way, one cries another doesn’t, but the truth is we are all very sad. We return dead tired, dead with feeling it is unjust.
“It was an intense, masculine, vibrant game with a referee who seemed Spanish. It was yellow, yellow, yellow all the time. The injustice is shown by the fact Lamela should’ve had a second yellow, he didn’t, and he converted a penalty in the shoot-out.”
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