that Arsenal were more deserving of the
“boring” epithet after his team closed on the
Premier League title with a 0-0 draw on
Sunday.
Chelsea’s last seven league wins have come
by a single-goal margin and they were
taunted with chants of ‘Boring, boring
Chelsea!’ as the clock wound down at the
Emirates Stadium.
But with Chelsea now six points from the
title, which Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal have
not won since 2004, Mourinho said the home
fans’ ire had been directed at the wrong side.
“Boring I think is 10 years without a title,” he
said. “That’s very boring. You support the
club and you’re waiting, waiting, waiting for
so many years without a Premier League
title, so that’s very boring.”
Warming to his theme, the Chelsea manager
— who won two league titles in his first stint
at Stamford Bridge — suggested Wenger had
given up on winning the game by
withdrawing striker Olivier Giroud with six
minutes to play.
“Maybe they (the Arsenal fans) aren’t singing
to us,” he said.
“Maybe, when you want to win a game and
you’re at home and you take the number nine
off, maybe the home fans want to see
(Danny) Welbeck and Giroud up front.
“We had a very good experience. The boring
team is the team with the second-highest
goals in the Premier League, the team with
the best goal difference.
“Only (Manchester) City have scored more
goals than us.”
Chelsea had three penalty appeals turned
down in the first half and Arsenal one, but it
was the hosts who came closest in the
second period, with Per Mertesacker and
Santi Cazorla shooting wide.
Nacho Monreal also delivered a dangerous
ball into the box in stoppage time, but neither
Mesut Ozil not substitute Welbeck could turn
it in.
The result left Arsenal 10 points below
Chelsea in third place, below City on goal
difference but with a game in hand, and
Wenger conceded that nothing would stop
Mourinho claiming the title now.
“We did enough to win the game today and
Chelsea defended well,” he said.
“In the first half we had the right intensity.
We dropped that in the second half and came
back into the right level for the last 20
minutes.
“In fact, when we finished the game off, we
did have a great chance in the final minute of
the game. But they came to defend well, and
they did that well, and everybody knows
that.”
He added: “Chelsea will be champions. We
know that. It is impossible to lose it now
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