John Terry reveals ‘incredible’ rule Jose Mourinho taught his Chelsea players to waste time

John Terry has revealed the lengths Jose Mourinho would go to secure three points and explained how the former Chelsea manager would get one over on the officials.

Terry recalled how Mourinho – who won three Premier League trophies with Chelsea –  used the rule book to his advantage during games in the English top-flight. 

The Portuguese manager knew how to waste time without being penalised by the referee and told his players exactly how to utilise the loophole. 

John Terry (above) has revealed the lengths Jose Mourinho would go to secure three points

While working as a pundit for beIN Sports’ coverage of the World Cup, Terry said: ‘I remember, the rule was, if we were 1-0 up and the ball got delivered into the box…if two defenders went up together and both went down on the floor after, you didn’t have to go off the field of play.

‘So last 10 or 15 minutes, he would sit me and Gary Cahill down and go: ‘when the ball comes in the box, make sure you both go down – bump into each other and both go down because you can’t both go off.

Terry recalled how Mourinho – who won three Premier League trophies with Chelsea – used the rule book to his advantage during games in the English top-flight

Mourinho used to tell Terry and Gary Cahill to bump into each other while in the box

‘We’d never heard of that rule ever. So ball comes over in the last 10 minutes, head it away, Gaz goes down and I think ‘I better go down’. So I dropped to the floor and the ref said ‘you two off the pitch’. I said ‘no that’s not the rule, ask the linesman’.’

Terry added: ‘Mourinho was so far ahead with those little bits and you’re talking small margins and the best managers find those little margins. Incredible.’

Mourinho, who secured a full set European trophies with AS Roma last season, is known for his streetwise but his methods have come under fire on more occasions than one. 

Mourinho, who secured a full set European trophies with AS Roma last season, is known for his streetwise but his methods have come under fire on more occasions than one

Mourinho is also know for his ‘park the bus’ tactic. However, Terry revealed how the Portuguese manager would tell them to throw caution to the wind to make Tottenham ‘suffer’.

Terry said: ‘If we were two or three goals up at half time against certain teams – Spurs being one of them – he’d say ‘go and kill them, go and make them suffer today.

‘Make it five, six, seven, eight. Let them know Chelsea are here. But as players on the pitch we were like ‘no we’ll take this, I want the clean sheet bonus!’