A mini-revival was brought to a juddering end on Saturday as the Chelsea manager suffered perhaps his most embarrassing ever loss in a season going from very bad to worse
Three games unbeaten and three successive clean sheets had Jose Mourinho convinced that his Chelsea side was turning the corner, but the Special One will return to the drawing board this evening contemplating another false dawn and perhaps the most embarrassing defeat of his managerial career.
The champions are marooned in 14th place, now just two points ahead of a Bournemouth side whose victory at Stamford Bridge, perhaps most damning of all as far as Mourinho is concerned, owed little to luck and dogged perseverance.