Mourinho get two-match ban for insulting ref

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho was slapped with a two-match touchline ban on Friday for insulting the referee during a Spanish Cup match.

The disciplinary committee of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) said the sanction was for “speaking to the referee in a contemptible way” during Wednesday’s match against Real Murcia, won 5-1 by Real.

Spanish sports newspapers said the referee, Jose Luis Paradas Romero, expelled Mourinho in the 37th minute after he told him to “Go to Hell.”

The punishment will prevent the Portuguese coach from giving instructions to the team from touchline during Real’s league match away to Sporting Gijon on Sunday and at home to bottom club Malaga on November 20.

“It is better that I am punished than an important player,” Mourinho told Cadena Ser radio late on Thursday.

“Football is full of situations in which you lose control. The Murcia game was very easy to referee but I don’t want to apologise.”