Chelsea: Mourinho in dig at "kid" AVB

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27th September 2013 4:26pm BST

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has accused Tottenham Hotspur chief Andre Villas-Boas of being a “kid”.

The Spurs manager revealed on Thursday that he is no longer on speaking terms with the man he worked as an assistant to at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan.

While Mourinho refused to be drawn into a war of words with his former protégé on the eve of the Blues’ clash with the Lilywhites, he did hint that he felt Villas-Boas’ comments were childish.


When asked to describe his relationship with the White Hart Lane boss, he told reporters: “I don’t describe it.
'I'm not a kid who discusses relationships with the media. It's a personal thing, and I'm not here to discuss that.
''I don't care about what he says. I'm not here to comment on what he says. I'm not interested.''

When pressed on whether beating Villas-Boas would be all the sweeter because of their history, Mourinho replied: “No. No.

''I played a Champions League final against a club where the manager (Louis Van Gaal at Bayern Munich) was somebody very important in my career, somebody that gave me the chance to grow up and teach me so many things.
''But I had to play against him in a Champions League Final. And I did it in a professional way. He did it in a professional way. That's the way you have to do it.''