YOU POOR LAMB

Last updated : 23 December 2004 By editor

Jose Mourinho:

"One of the difficult things in England for me is that I can only have five players on the bench. This makes life much more difficult and it's only like this in France and England.


"In European competition, Spain, Italy and Portugal, you're allowed seven substitutes. I had to go to Arsenal and leave Joe Cole and Alexei Smertin in the stands. Why? They should be by my side. It would give me more options and help motivate the players as if they are on the bench they feel more involved in the game."

What an awful conundrum. Maybe they should be allowed to field 15 players to make it a little easier for him.