Ruud Gullit has accused Jose Mourinho of preventing his Chelsea players from playing football.

As the Blues clinched the Premier League title on Sunday, former Stamford Bridge player and manager Gullit criticised the Portuguese from slowing things down in the second half of the season.

"After a great, attractive first half of the season, Jose Mourinho put the handbrake on," Gullit told the Sunday Mirror.

"His team is boring when, in my opinion, the players he has deserve much better. Mourinho deserves his negative label because of the calculated way he makes Chelsea play.

"I find it astonishing, because his players are capable of brilliant football, as we saw on Wednesday for a brief moment when they were losing 1-0 at Leicester and were suddenly forced to put their foot on the accelerator.

"You could see their hunger to attack and the joy that playing like that brought to the players. They loved it. They were sparkling. Then, as soon as Chelsea were winning 2-1, Mourinho wanted to bring on Kurt Zouma, the defensive midfielder, to keep everything close up.

"When Zouma was waiting to come on, Chelsea scored a third goal, yet still the change was made to seal the victory. Why on earth did Mourinho do that when it was clear that his players wanted to keep attacking and demolish Leicester?

"It is because Mourinho hasn't changed. He has forever got his hand on the handbrake."

Nevertheless, Chelsea claimed their fourth Premier League title courtesy of a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace to sit 13 points clear of the rest of the competition with three fixtures remaining.