Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho refused to comment on the referee’s performance in his side’s 5-3 drubbing by Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.

The Portuguese looked enraged at many decisions official Phil Dowd made during the match that went against Chelsea.

However, the normally outspoken Mourinho told BT Sport: “I don’t want to be punished. I want to be around for the next match, so I prefer to say that we just lost. Tomorrow is another day.

“Every game is unpredictable, but there are things in the game that are becoming predictable.

“Of course I hate to lose, but I prefer to lose like I did against Newcastle with a clean performance from referee Martin Atkinson and an unlucky performance by us. But in a game when you lose because of football is a different feeling.

“You pay well to your pundits, so hopefully they will say it is true.”