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| Jose Mourinho was in tetchy mood during his press conference |
JOSE MOURINHO lashed out after video footage of the Chelsea boss involved in an incident on a London street emerged.
Mourinho is angry that phone camera footage of two teenagers following him through west London was reported this week.
Chelsea have described the incident as "overly intrusive" causing the 52-year-old to be in a foul mood during a press conference at the club's Cobham training ground today.
"You don't get from me good and funny headlines," Mourinho said when asked about his squad being visited by the South African rugby team this week.
"I'm going to treat your bosses the same way they treat me. No respect, no respect.
"And I'm not speaking about football. Football I'm ready to accept any kind of criticism, even the stupid ones.
"Private life and stupid things that you bring to light, I don't like it. So we go to a different level of professional relationship."
Mourinho was open to discussing the problems concerning his Chelsea side ahead their trip to West Ham tomorrow (3pm).
But the Blues manager is not convinced his side have climbed out of the slump that leaves them 12th in the Premier League.
"I don't know," he said. "I just know that the team was always together, the players were always together.
"The players were man enough to assume responsibility and to say even publicly some of them that they were feeling responsibilities in their individual poor start.
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| Mourinho was not happy at Cobham today |
Mourinho declined to say if Hazard would start at Upton Park, but claimed he was happy with the winger's performance in Ukraine.
"I don't know (if Hazard will start)," said Mourinho, who has the same squad as he had for Tuesday's game, with Pedro and Loic Remy remaining out.
"He played the last match and played for 90 minutes and he was part of the compact team that kept that clean sheet.
"I'm happy with his contribution against Dynamo and that's it."
"Statistics are very clear for us. As an example, we conceded six goals as a consequence of isolated individual mistakes.
"But the team was always together. We've got two important results, three points in the Premier League after two matches without a victory and against a direct rival for qualification in the Champions League (Dynamo) we got a point away and the chance in 15 days to play against them.
"The mood improves with results and people are happy."
Eden Hazard, Chelsea's star man, was dropped for the 2-0 win over Aston Villa last weekend, but returned to Mourinho's side for their 0-0 Champions League draw against Dynamo Kiev in midweek.
"As a coach, I like (him) a lot," Mourinho added. "Since the Croatian national team period to Besiktas and now to West Ham, I have a very good image, idea, about him.
"As a person, I don't know him very well, but I have the feeling that we could be friends."
"Premier League is 38 matches, lots of points. You lose today, you try to win tomorrow," he added.
"At this moment in the Premier League we are not afraid to lose matches. We are going to play normal."
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