Chelsea coach Rui Faria slapped with six-match STADIUM ban after altercation with an official during Sunderland defeat



Jose Mourinho's feeling that football's authorities have it in for Chelsea will have been amplified when his assistant Rui Faria was hit with a six-game stadium ban on Thursday.

Faria's punishment was confirmed after an independent disciplinary commission heard the evidence of his angry touchline clash with referee Mike Dean and fourth official Phil Dowd at Stamford Bridge last month.

Chelsea declined to comment last night and will wait to see written reasons for the punishment. If they do not appeal, Faria will miss the games at home to Norwich on Sunday, at Cardiff on the final day of the Barclays Premier League season and the first four domestic games of next season.

VIDEO Scroll down to watch a sarcastic Jose Mourinho after the Sunderland defeat



Off you go: Jose Mourinho holds back his assistant coach Rui Faria after he was sent off by Mike Dean (left)

Anger: Faria was infuriated by Dean's decision to give Sunderland a penalty during the defeat



The flashpoint, when Faria had to be dragged away from the officials, followed Fabio Borini's winning goal for Sunderland from a disputed penalty which inflicted Mourinho's first home defeat as Chelsea manager in 78 Barclays Premier League matches.



It was one of three disciplinary charges to emerge from the game for the club.

Ramires has been banned for four games for flinging an arm into Seb Larsson's face and Mourinho was charged with improper conduct by the FA for sarcastic post-match comments made in the media about the performance of referee Dean and referees' chief Mike Riley. It is his third charge of the season and the hearing is expected to be next week.

'I do not feel free,' said the Chelsea boss, last week. 'Every time I speak, there's a consequence. Even when I think the referee is amazing, there's a reason to be charged. So I don't feel free at all.'

Faria is Mourinho's long-term confidante and sounding board on the bench and also takes the team's pre-match warm-up on the pitch.



The two Portuguese have worked continuously together for 12 years and the hard-line punishment will hurt Mourinho.

It is one of the most severe bans handed out to coaching staff because there were two breaches of the rules and because the officials were the target of his verbal abuse.

Calm down: Mourinho tries his hardest to hold Faria back on the touchline during an angry exchange



Neatly tucked away: Fabio Borini had no problems scoring the resulting penalty at Stamford Bridge

The first breach was using 'insulting words and behaviour' towards Dowd and the second was 'improper conduct' after Dean had ordered him to leave the technical area. He was also fined £30,000 and warned about future conduct.

Newcastle's Alan Pardew was banned from the stadium for three games and from the touchline for a further four after his butt on Hull midfielder David Meyler. Paul Ince was banned from the stadium for five games after a tirade at an angry fourth official when manager of Blackpool.