Ex-Chelsea physio Eva Carneiro now owns football club years after row with Jose Mourinho

Despite facing sexist maltreatment from fans and harsh disapproval from Jose Mourinho during her clip with Chelsea, erstwhile physio Eva Carneiro has carved herself a wholly antithetic relation successful football

It's becoming much and much communal for backroom unit successful shot to go household names.

From Arsenal lensman Stuart MacFarlane being snapped connected the transportation by Martin Odegaard, to Eddie Howe's No. 2 astatine Newcastle, Jason Tindall, going viral astatine each opportunity.

But fewer person made specified a splash connected our backmost and beforehand pages arsenic erstwhile Chelsea squad doc Eva Carneiro, who famously faced the wrath of the self-proclaimed 'Special One' Jose Mourinho, pursuing a arguable incidental during a 2015 lucifer against Swansea. In a crippled that had already seen Blues goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois spot red, Eden Hazard went down injured pursuing an Ashley Williams tackle precocious successful the game.

The Chelsea physios ran past Mourinho and onto the transportation to instrumentality the Belgian off, enraging the manager, arsenic it would permission his broadside down to 9 men. After the game, Mourinho angrily claimed Hazard’s wounded wasn’t serious, criticising the aesculapian squad for not knowing the situation.

Carneiro, who besides concisely worked astatine West Ham arsenic good arsenic with Team GB, near Chelsea the pursuing September, and pursued ineligible enactment against the club, yet reaching a colony reportedly worthy £5million.

Following the incident, Carneiro's involvement successful shot waned, and the Gibraltar-born doc says she couldn't bring herself to ticker a lucifer until the Champions League last the pursuing year.

However, Carneiro has intelligibly fallen backmost successful emotion with the sport, having go a portion proprietor of East Sussex broadside Lewes FC. Lewes' men play successful the Isthmian Premier League, with the women's broadside playing their shot successful the Championship. The club, which was founded backmost successful 1885, besides boasts tennis manager Judy Murray arsenic a co-owner.

Speaking astir her engagement with Lewes, a community-run nine aiming to beryllium 'the archetypal sex adjacent nine successful the world', Carneiro confessed her admiration for the mode Lewes is run.

"Love the beauteous crippled and shot has specified power," she said. "Imagine utilizing it for good. Imagine uncovering a nine with values arsenic the centre of its ethos. I’m a arrogant owner..."

As good arsenic becoming a nine co-owner, Carneiro has besides worked arsenic a sports specializer successful a apical Harley Street clinic, and worked successful Qatar successful the build-up to the 2022 World Cup.

The 50-year-old joined polar explorer and businessman Jason De Carteret successful 2015. But it's improbable you'll spot the mates backmost astatine Stamford Bridge watching a crippled immoderate clip soon, with her bosom firmly with Lewes these days.