There were times here when José Mourinho,alone in his technical area as his ailing champions slumped yet again, wore the haunted contemplate of the condemned. The kind of haggard demeanour that, and dare it be said,marked out André Villa-Boas and Roberto Di Matteo before him, and the Portuguese is not used to being in such company. He was the one, and unsolicited,who brought up the prospect of suffering the sack in the aftermath and, whether that was him challenging his employers, or a parting of the ways no longer feels an outlandish suggestion.
This was a humiliation,a fourth defeat of their Premier League defence inflicted by a rampant Southampton side whose effervescence simply blinded Chelsea. Sadio Mané ran amok, Steven Davis hassled and harried the hosts to distraction, and Graziano Pellè bullied his markers who merely wilted,cramped by anxiety. There was no saviour to celebrate in John Terry, the restored captain exposed and exploited when the visitors first forced themselves ahead. Mourinho’s complaints over the non-award of a penalty to Radamel Falcao ignored the reality Virgil van Dijk and Mané had legitimate complaints of their own at seeing appeals for spot-kicks dismissed.
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Source: theguardian.com