Jose Mourinho has revealed that he will not be appealing his stadium ban for Saturday's match against Stoke.
Mourinho will be absent from the dugout at the Britannia Stadium after receiving a one-match stadium ban from the Football Association after admitting a charge of misconduct following the 2-1 defeat to West Ham last month.
But the Portuguese, whose side have lost six of their 11 Premier League games since winning the title last summer, will not be contesting the charge.
"No, because match is tomorrow, and I know result of that appeal already, so I decided to give up," he said.
"It is stupid to fight a fight you know you are going to lose. I'll go on the bus with them and wait in Stoke."
Mourinho once allegedly hid in a laundry basket used for transporting the club's kit to get round a UEFA ban covering a big game. However, he won't be doing the same thing this weekend.
"No temptation," he said. "I know the situation where I am in relation to the football power in this country and I have to adapt."
Asked whether he would be watching the game anywhere, he said: "I have no plans [to watch]. Maybe I sit in the street corner with my iPad. Maybe I don't even watch the game."
Mourinho was then quizzed over how tough he would find it to not be at the game.
"Well, you can imagine that is not easy. You can imagine how I feel," he added. "And I don't want to speak a lot about it because, to speak about it, I have to go deeper. I have to go to the dimension of the situation.
"One thing is not to be on the bench. Because, against West Ham, the referee told me not to be on the bench in the second half. But nobody told me to leave the stadium. 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.
"If I go into the dimension of the punishment, I think it opens a range of situations and options that 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 lose.
"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.
"But, from my point of view, I want to be out of it. I want to let the game of tomorrow finish. And that's it."