After the stalemate, Mourinho said: "We thank the referee because after the big dive in the first minute and their bench jumping like monkeys on the top of the kid, with a Turkish referee, the kid would have a yellow card after one minute and after five minutes I would have to change.
"As every sensible person can see and understand; these statements used by Jose Mourinho to describe the excessive reaction of the opposing team's technical staff to the referee decisions during the match can in no way be associated with racism.
It read: "A statement made by our technical director Jose Mourinho after the match was completely taken out of context and an attempt was made to deliberately distort it.
DIDIER DROGBA has passionately defended his former boss Jose Mourinho over accusations of racism.
It included their "intention to initiate criminal proceedings concerning the racist statements made by Jose Mourinho.".
