Newcastle 2 Chelsea 0: 'I made 11 mistakes!' No-one spared as Mourinho kicks up a stink after Blues' shock defeat on Tyneside

Deep in thought and, no doubt, admiration, Jose Mourinho spent 10 minutes of the half-hour before kick-off standing alone, captivated by the ghosts of Newcastle United’s glorious past.

One by one, the faded photographs hanging in the entrance corridor of the likes of Hughie Gallacher, Stan Seymour and Frank Hudspeth, players in United’s last title-winning side 86 years ago, were perused by the Chelsea manager.

The portraits of Yoan Gouffran and Loic Remy may never join such exalted company, but that does not mean Mourinho will forget their faces. Joyous scenes after the Frenchmen grabbed the 68th and 89th-minute goals which prevented Chelsea climbing, albeit briefly, to the top of the Premier League table would have long since transcended those pre-match images.

Mourinho admitted later he had ‘smelt’ defeat at half-time and he castigated his players, declaring: ‘I made 11 wrong team choices; I made 11 mistakes today. 

'I’ve been in this game many years and I was smelling what was going to happen. I did not like my team today. When one team is not there they normally lose and that’s what happened to us today. We lacked everything really.’

Gouffran’s opener came after the home side had weathered a torrent of pressure that matched the rain which poured on a packed St James’ Park with stoic and sometimes fortunate defending. Suddenly, though, Newcastle hit their own purple patch around the hour.

Petr Cech made superb saves from Moussa Sissoko and Remy which prompted Mourinho to reorganise his troops, Samuel Eto’o and Willian replacing Fernando Torres and Juan Mata. But to no avail.

John Terry was penalised for a foul on Papiss Cisse ten yards inside the Chelsea half, six minutes after the striker had come on for Sammy Ameobi. 

Yohan Cabaye pinpointed the edge of the eight-yard box with his superbly flighted free-kick and when both Branislav Ivanovic and Frank Lampard failed to cut the ball out, Gouffran (nickname Goofy) stole in behind them to beat Cech with a diving header.

It had been all Chelsea in the first half. Terry saw a header come off the bar then had another effort cleared off the line by Davide Santon. Ivanovic’s spectacular overhead kick struck Sissoko before clipping the bar and Tim Krul made terrific saves from Eden Hazard and Oscar.