Jose Mourinho: Trolls hate Chelsea because they’re boring, on top of league since day one

After a study showed that Chelsea receives more hate from social media trolls than any other Premier League team, Jose Mourinho addressed it brilliantly.

A study by anti-discrimination group, Kick It Out showed Thursday that English Premier League team Chelsea receives more discrimination from any other club via social media. Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho addressed the study Friday with brilliant trolling of his own.

After being asked why he thinks Chelsea faces more criticism than other teams, Mourinho had this to say:

Exceptional response there from Mourniho, who has been with Chelsea since 2013 after managing Real Madrid for four years. This year, Chelsea is at the top of the Premier League standings with 73 points and a 22-2 record as well as seven draws.  They lead Arsenal in second by seven points in the current standings.

Kick It Out wants to help put an end to the continuous abuse that soccer teams and players face on a daily basis over social media from constant trolling. According to the study, there have been 134,400 discriminatory posts this season related to the Premier League alone. Of those posts, abusers are targeting race of players 28 percent of the time and using sexual orientation as discrimination 19 percent.

Chelsea has received around 20,000 posts of abuse and right behind behind them in second is Liverpool at approximately 19,000 posts. Liverpool receives so many because they have the most harshly abused player over social media, Mario Balotelli as their striker. Balotelli has received over 8,000 posts of discrimination over social media, far more than any other player, and 52 percent of these posts are directed at his race.

These types of hate posts obviously need to stop and hopefully Kick It Out will be able to find a way to help police this sort of discrimination over social media that has no affiliation with how the game is played. Trolls on social media need to stick to criticizing the game of players or teams, without bringing in obscene remarks based on the personal traits or beliefs of soccer players including their race, religion or sexual orientation.

h/t to BBC Sport for sharing the study

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