Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has hit back at criticism from Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness regarding the behaviour of his players versus Paris Saint-Germain.
Mourinho was responding to reaction from the from the pair, who are pundits for Sky Sports, about Chelsea's confrontations with the referee in the midweek Champions League elimination against Paris Saint-Germain, claiming that they did very similar in their playing careers, and Souness just as much in his managerial career.
Nine of Mourinho's players had confronted referee Bjorn Kuipers about Zlatan Ibrahimovic's tackle on Oscar that led to a straight red card for the Sweden international.
Mourinho rejected certain perceptions of his behaviour, and said the true way to judge Chelsea was the way they congratulated PSG.
He said: "One by one in the tunnel after the PSG game, I shook the hands of not just their players but the coaches and everyone else from PSG. I told them they deserved to win and good luck for the future.
"This is the way we behave after a defeat. I am not like the way people sometimes like to describe me."
Responding to the censure from former Liverpool players Carragher and , Mourinho said: "The world is a bit strange, maybe because of diets and quality products we are eating, I think memories are getting shorter. Because when Carragher and Souness speak about it, it is because they are having a problem for sure.
"Carragher stopped playing two years ago and it seems he's forgotten everything on the pitch. Mr Souness has also forgotten, though he stopped playing a long time ago. He also forgets that I know so much about him, because he left Benfica as coach.
"But I prefer to laugh and prefer to say the envy is the biggest thing that the shadows do to the man."
Mourinho wouldn't elaborate on what was said in the squad meeting to discuss the exit to PSG, other than to say it was healthy for the players.
He said: "I had a meeting for the players. Everybody spoke. Not everybody. Not one by one, but lots of people were speaking. We were very interactive. It was good.
"Yesterday, I closed with the players the chapter with the Champions League."
He added: "My [team] doctor told me, after the game, maybe tomorrow we'll have a few injuries. Why? 'Because we lost, because people are sad.' I told the doctor: 'I don't believe [that].' [We have] zero injuries.
"Everybody wants to play. Not like some journalists, when they write bulls--- and then, the next press conference, they don't come. My players don't do that. They want to play."
Mourinho also would not comment on Ibrahimovic's complaints that Chelsea acted like "babies" in trying to get him sent off.
He added: "I have my own opinion about things."