Mourinho will not be allowed in the Britannia Stadium tomorrow when Chelsea play Stoke as punishment for misconduct during his side’s defeat to West ham last month.
The Portuguese manager confronted referee John Moss at half-time in the 2-1 loss and was forced to watch the second half from the stands.
An appeal would have allowed him to take his place on the bench but Mourinho today revealed his reasons why he decided to accept his punishment.
“The match is tomorrow. I know the result of the appeal already, so I decide to give up,” Mourinho said.
**CHELSEA'S MISERABLE SEASON IN PICTURES**
“I think it's stupid to fight a fight you know you already lose. I'll go on the bus with them and wait in Stoke.
“You can imagine that is not easy. You can imagine how I feel. At this moment, I am stopped not just to do my work, but from going to a football stadium and being at something I like so much - football.
“I can imagine, in the future, we are going to have lots of managers with stadium bans because a stadium ban should relate to something really, really serious in terms of aggression, words I don't want to use.
"This stadium ban is connected to words; to complaints. At this moment it's open, in the future, for the stadium ban to happen many more times unless we have our association, or other associations around Europe, question in a very serious and legal way about the rights of the managers and the dimension of the stadium ban.”
In Mourinho’s absence it will be left to his backroom team of Rui Faria, Steve Holland and Silvino Louro to manage the Blues.
Mourinho will not be allowed any communication with his staff during the game and he claims he has gone through a thousand possible scenarios with them to ensure they are fully prepared.
He once allegedly hid in a laundry basket to enter the Chelsea dressing room during a Champions League game as he served a touchline ban but Mourinho insisted there would be no repeat and suggested he may not even watch the game.
“If after 10 minutes we are playing with seven men, it's something that my assistants were not prepared for. I did not prepared them for that so they have to decide themselves,” Mourinho said.
“The game is unpredictable and we don’t know the direction of the game in many aspects but we try to reduce that.
“The most incredible scenarios that you can imagine, lets go to extreme scenarios - at half-time winning 4-0, losing 4-0.
“In between this you have a thousand options, be dominating and controlling the game, being dominated, having problems with this area, problems with that area, injuries or red cards of the goalkeeper, the right back, the central defender, the left back, the winger, the striker.
"We went through these scenarios and they are prepared.
"I have no plans [to watch the game]. Maybe I sit on a street corner with my iPad. Maybe I don't even watch the game. What's the point if I can't make decisions?
“Maybe [I follow it on Twitter]. Maybe live scores, I don't know.”
