Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho had been handed a four match ban and fined by Turkish Football following his comments on Turkish referees after clash with Galatasaray.
The Thursday decision by Turkish Federation will see the former Chelsea manager pay a fine of $44,000 after he was quoted criticizing match officials following his side barren draw against Galatasaray.
The 62-year-old Portuguese coach has already served his first match ban on Thursday when he was absent from the bench during his side 4-1 win against Gaziantep.
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Fenerbahce are reported to have challenged the decision banning there coach and will appeal the ruling. If not successful, Jose Mourinho will have three more matches to remain at the side.
The contentious Fenerbahce-Galatasaray clash was forced to graced by a foreign referee after both sides deemed it fit not to use a local referee. Mourinho was quoted praising Slavko Vincic of Slovenia.
The former Real Madrid manager confirmed that after the clash he approached the Turkish referee and told him that if he had officiated the clash then it would have been a disaster.
He was also quoted saying that they would have issued a yellow card “after the big dive and their bench jumping around like monkeys.”
The Turkish Federation noted that the ban and fine against him was due to his ‘derogatory and offensive statements towards the Turkish referee’ and would create disorder in the league.
Fenerbahce came to defend there manager saying that his statement was taken out of contest and so was his former player Didier Drogba who issued a statement saying that the former Chelsea manager can never be a racist.
