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Chelsea boss Mourinho throws a Spanish wobbler: It's the weather

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho blames the Spanish weather for his wobbler at yesterday's Champions League media conference.

Mourinho is back in Madrid for their semifinal first-leg at Atletico Madrid.

But he refused to discuss the controversies surrounding Saturday's defeat to Sunderland, including the sending-off of his furious assistant Rui Faria.

"My reaction is simple," he said. "Today and tomorrow are Champions League days.

"It is difficult to speak about the Premier League. You have 19 others teams to do that.

"Today and tomorrow is the Champions League and we are only available to speak about Champions League."

He added: "We are lucky to be involved in the Champions League so in the next two days we don't think about the Premier League and what happened and what is going to happen because we only think about the big match we have."

Asked what had changed to make him so downbeat, Mourinho said: "Nothing - the weather."

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