JOSE Mourinho is going the right way about turning the country against Chelsea.

The outspoken Portuguese manager has only been over here for three months, and seems to have got everybody's backs up right away.

The reason is simple. Mourinho is rude and shows no respect.

Spurs and their fans must despise him after his comments about both their club and their team's performance in Sunday's goalless draw at Stamford Bridge.

Mourinho labelled Spurs a "very small club" in the same breath that he described Chelsea as "a big club" and he paid no respect to the magnificent defensive performance which won the White Hart Lane men a hard-earned point.

His stream of critical comments included accusations that Spurs' players did not want to play, did not want to score, fell over too easily, wasted time, frustrated everyone with their tactics and "might as well have put the team bus in front of their goal".

The toys continued to be thrown out of the pram as he said it was not fair for people to pay £50 to watch a game in which one side refused to play.

Wrong. What are Spurs supposed to do? Open up the game and get picked off by Chelsea's superior players? Sorry, Mr Mourinho, it doesn't work that way.

To paraphrase ex-Bolton Wanderers manager Ian Greaves's quote when responding to criticism after a similar backs-to-the-wall point-winning performance at mighty Liverpool in the 1970s; if Mourinho wants entertainment, he should go to the Palladium.

Anyway, such criticism is rich coming from the manager of a team which has been as dull as ditchwater so far this season.

In the last few months, Mourinho has been given the most sought-after job in football, all the money he can spend and the pick of the world's best players to coach. It seems he also wants the opposition to give him the points.

He is no longer in Portugal where there are only three or four decent teams. He may be a Champions League winner, but he still has everything to prove in the Premiership.