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Last Updated: Thursday, 31 March, 2005, 10:29 GMT 11:29 UK

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Timeline of Chelsea row with Uefa

23 February, 2005

The start of the affair
The Champions League tie between Chelsea and Barcelona is perfectly poised at 21 after the first leg at the Nou Camp but it is what happens off the pitch and not on it that makes the headlines. Chelsea do not attend postmatch interviews and complain that they saw referee Anders Frisk and Barca boss Frank Rijkaard talking.

27 February, 2005

Mourinho breaks his silence
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho remains incensed by talk of Frisk and Rijkaard talking in the tunnel during the break at the Nou Camp. He stokes the fires by accusing Rijkaard of lying when he says he did not go into Frisk's dressing room and predicts that Pierluigi Collina considered the world's best referee will officiate for the second leg.

7 March, 2005

The row rumbles on
On the eve of the second leg Mourinho is warned to keep out of Uefa business after claiming he had inside knowledge Collina would take charge of the second leg. The Blues boss then launches an astonishing double attack on Frisk and Uefa quotMy first point is we need to play better than Barcelona but my second point is to have a referee without influence in the result.quot

8 March, 2005

Mourinho told to shut up
Uefa's patience with Mourinho finally snaps and William Gaillard director of communications tells the Chelsea manager to quotshut upquot quotImagine if Fabio Capello or Arsene Wenger went around saying that all the time to get into this area of refereeing is counterproductive.quot Gaillard's words come on the day Chelsea win the second leg 42.

12 March, 2005

Frisk quits football
Frisk announces his retirement from football with immediate effect following a number of threats aimed at him and his family. Earlier in the season he had also been involved in an incident during Roma's Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev when he was hit by an object thrown from the crowd and called the game off.

14 March, 2005

Mourinho branded enemy of football
Uefa referees' chief Volker Roth describes Mourinho as the quotenemy of footballquot and chief executive LarsChrister Olsson says quotWe will not allow the slandering of officials to become part of prematch tactics.quot Chelsea declare themselves ready to act if it can be proven that their own supporters made the threats which convinced Frisk to retire.

15 March, 2005

Mourinho threatens legal action
Mourinho promises to take legal action against Roth unless he retracts his claim that the Blues boss is the quotenemy of footballquot. The Football Association's head of refereeing John Baker urges Mourinho to curb his outspoken comments about referees quotPeople do not realise the influence they have on thousands and thousands of people who hang on to their every word.quot

16 March, 2005

Mourinho accused
Martin Ingvarsson the fourth official at the Nou Camp says there was no quotchatquot between Rijkaard and Frisk. Fifa president Sepp Blatter insists managers are damaging football by criticising referees quotWe should remember the one who is attacking referees is also attacking the football environment he is living in.quot

21 March, 2005

Uefa charges Chelsea
Uefa charge Mourinho his assistant Steve Clarke and security officer Les Miles with making quotwrong and unfoundedquot statements. A Uefa statement reads quotChelsea FC allowed its technical staff to deliberately create a poisoned and negative ambience amongst the teams and to put pressure on the refereeing officials.quot

24 March, 2005

Kenyon questions fair hearing
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon responds to Uefa's statement defending the three accused and questioning whether the club could have a fair hearing after Gaillard's damning comments. quotVarious statements have called into question publicly the integrity of our manager assistant coach security officer and the club as a whole. We cannot allow these to stand unchallengedquot he says.

28 March, 2005

Mourinho supports staff
Mourinho backs Clarke and Miles and stands by the club's version of events at the Nou Camp. quotI am the manager and I have people who assist me. If something happened and I don't see it and if some of my people arrive and say to me 'I saw this this happened' then I say it is true because I can't work without loyalty and I have to believe my peoplequot he says.

31 March, 2005

Chelsea escape heavy punishment
Mourinho is fined pound8900 and gets a twomatch touchline ban after being found guilty of disrepute at Uefa HQ. The club is handed a pound33300 fine and Clarke and Miles are reprimanded for their conduct. quotWe are not overly happy with the decision but we respect itquot said club chairman Bruce Buck.

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