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Jose Mourinho floors opposition manager with nose grab as wild brawl breaks out in crazy Istanbul derby
Jose Mourinho grabbed his rival manager’s nose in bizarre scenes as an Istanbul derby descended into chaos on Wednesday night. The fierce Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce rivalry had another edition with the teams facing off in the Turkish Cup quarter-finals, where the Portuguese bizarrely yanked his opposition number down to the ground from the nose. Mourinho appeared to grab the Galatasaray boss’ nose The Galatasaray boss was left in a heap Mourinho’s Fenerbahce were knocked out in a 2-1 defeat with Victor Osimhen scoring twice for Galatasaray. This is the fiercest rivalry in Turkish football and three red cards were dished out in the 90 minutes. All three of those dismissals happened in the second minute of stoppage-time. The game had to be paused as a mass brawl broke out with both benches involved in the fracas. Both sets of players were involved in the shoving match before police officers came in to restore order. The referee decided to send off Galatasaray substitutes Kerim Demirbay and Baris Yilmaz with Fenerbahce’s Mert Yandas also receiving his marching orders. Mourinho is never far from the controversy either as cameras caught his altercation with Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk. The former Chelsea and Man United manager approached Buruk and tried to grab his nose. The Galatasaray boss then collapsed to the ground in a heap. Players and security quickly rushed to the incident and Mourinho was held back from getting further involved. A brawl broke out late on in the game that saw three red cards handed outGetty The players were quite literally at each other’s throatsGetty It is hardly surprising that tensions boiled over in the Istanbul derby after what happened when the two met earlier this year. Mourinho was issued with a four-match suspension and fined £35,000 after he was accused of making offensive and discriminatory comments. In his remarks after the game, Mourinho allegedly described the behaviour of the Galatasaray bench as ‘jumping like monkeys’ in response to an early tackle. He also expressed that the match benefited from having Slovenian Slavko Vincic as the referee, rather than Turkish officials, after both teams had requested a neutral referee from abroad. Following the incident, Galatasaray declared their plans to ‘initiate legal proceedings regarding the racist remarks attributed to Jose Mourinho’ and asserted that he had made ‘disparaging comments about the Turkish people’. It is not the first time Mourinho has lashed out at an opposition coach as well. He was involved in a famous incident while he was Real Madrid manager in the El Clasico. The Portuguese poke Barcelona assistant Tito Vilanova in the eye as emotions boiled over. That image quickly went viral. Now we await what will happen this time to Mourinho for his latest indiscretion.
Jose Mourinho grabbed his rival manager’s nose in bizarre scenes as an Istanbul derby descended into chaos on Wednesday night.
The fierce Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce rivalry had another edition with the teams facing off in the Turkish Cup quarter-finals, where the Portuguese bizarrely yanked his opposition number down to the ground from the nose.
Mourinho’s Fenerbahce were knocked out in a 2-1 defeat with Victor Osimhen scoring twice for Galatasaray.
This is the fiercest rivalry in Turkish football and three red cards were dished out in the 90 minutes.
All three of those dismissals happened in the second minute of stoppage-time.
The game had to be paused as a mass brawl broke out with both benches involved in the fracas.
Both sets of players were involved in the shoving match before police officers came in to restore order.
The referee decided to send off Galatasaray substitutes Kerim Demirbay and Baris Yilmaz with Fenerbahce’s Mert Yandas also receiving his marching orders.
Mourinho is never far from the controversy either as cameras caught his altercation with Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk.
The former Chelsea and Man United manager approached Buruk and tried to grab his nose.
The Galatasaray boss then collapsed to the ground in a heap.
Players and security quickly rushed to the incident and Mourinho was held back from getting further involved.
It is hardly surprising that tensions boiled over in the Istanbul derby after what happened when the two met earlier this year.
Mourinho was issued with a four-match suspension and fined £35,000 after he was accused of making offensive and discriminatory comments.
In his remarks after the game, Mourinho allegedly described the behaviour of the Galatasaray bench as ‘jumping like monkeys’ in response to an early tackle.
He also expressed that the match benefited from having Slovenian Slavko Vincic as the referee, rather than Turkish officials, after both teams had requested a neutral referee from abroad.
Following the incident, Galatasaray declared their plans to ‘initiate legal proceedings regarding the racist remarks attributed to Jose Mourinho’ and asserted that he had made ‘disparaging comments about the Turkish people’.
It is not the first time Mourinho has lashed out at an opposition coach as well.
He was involved in a famous incident while he was Real Madrid manager in the El Clasico.
The Portuguese poke Barcelona assistant Tito Vilanova in the eye as emotions boiled over.
That image quickly went viral.
Now we await what will happen this time to Mourinho for his latest indiscretion.
