Freelance journalist Dan Levene on Mourinho…

”I hear he could have gone on Sunday – but, like previous sackings, Chelsea are choosing their moment. They want an opportunity that minimises the damage caused to the club. That means balancing the risk that a Mourinho side increasingly riven with divisions continues to lose games, with a moment to give his replacement the longest possible run-up at a debut match.

Sense says, discounting a complete disaster against Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday, that the axe will fall after Stoke on Saturday evening.”

Mourinho’s mysterious misfortunes include his having to sit out his side’s trip to Stoke City on Saturday.
Stoke have only lost one game in the last six.
To see Chelsae being beaten from the stands in his last game in charge may well be the final ignominy he will have to endure.