Jose Mourinho: Chelsea boss actually threw player's medal into crowd

Jose Mourinho actually threw Robert Huth’s Premier League winners’ medal into the Chelsea crowd rather than his own after winning the Premier League title in 2006.

That’s according to former Chelsea pitch announcer and presenter, Neil Barnett.

Footage of Mourinho throwing his medal into the Matthew Harding End is iconic and everyone assumed that the medal belonged to Mourinho.

However, new claims suggest that it was actually Huth’s.

A Chelsea fan account tweeted an image of Mourinho throwing a medal into the stands with the caption: “José Mourinho throws his 2005/06 PL winner’s medal into the crowd of Chelsea fans to show his love for them. One of us, forever.”

However, Barnett – who worked at the club for 32 years before leaving in 2018 – gave a different version of events.

“It wasn’t his. It was Robert Huth’s who hadn’t reported that day in order to force a move,” Barnett tweeted.

Huth had featured in 13 Premier League matches that season and was due a winners’ medal. However, the German was left out of three of the last four matchday squads and he looked to force a move away from Stamford Bridge.

And it seems his no-show for the final day of the season in which Chelsea beat Manchester United 3-0 angered Mourinho so much that he chucked his medal away.

Jose Mourinho throwing his Premier League winners medal in to the Chelsea crowdThe reaction from the man who caught it