Premier League: Jose Mourinho hits back at Luiz Suarez’s claim he ordered his players to waste time

CHELSEA manager Mourinho has hit back at Luis Suarez’s claims he told his players to waste time in their 2-0 win at Liverpool last season.

Chelsea's head coach Jose Mourinho arrives for the second half during the UEFA Champions League Group G football match between NK Maribor and Chelsea in Maribor, Slovenia on November 5, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JURE MAKOVEC

CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho has hit back at Luis Suarez’s claims he told his players to waste time in their 2-0 win at Liverpool last season.

Mourinho’s side travel to Anfield this weekend looking to stretch their lead at the top of the Premier League in their first meeting with Liverpool since that controversial clash in April.

There is little love lost between the two clubs, who have come bitter rivals in recent years, and Mourinho’s blast at former Liverpool star Suarez will only add to the enmity on Merseyside. Mourinho is angry that Uruguay striker Suarez, who left Liverpool for Barcelona in the close-season, claimed in a recently published book that he was told by an unnamed member of the Chelsea squad that the Blues had been ordered to employ spoiling tactics during a victory that effectively ended the Reds’ hopes of winning their first English league title since 1990.

“Another book? Books? Have you read the books? I don’t,” Mourinho told a press conference on Friday.

“At 51 years old maybe I have enough stories to write a book, but I don’t. But when you are 20 or 25 you write a book of what? Of when you were a kid?

“I have offers to do a book of 100 pictures I chose of my career and where I make just a little comment. But not a book to tell s*** and to criticise people and speak negative things about people.”

After his rant at Suarez, Mourinho was more restrained when asked about last season’s famous victory that denied Liverpool the title.

“I don’t want to speak about that game, it makes no sense, it is over,” Mourinho said.

Originally published as Premier League: Jose Mourinho hits back at Luiz Suarez’s claim he ordered his players to waste time