What compensation would you seek if you were called a ‘daughter of a whore’? You’d be hurt. You might retaliate. You might even lose your cool. But you wouldn’t expect to be paid £5 million by way of redress.
Yet that is the incredible amount which has reputedly been paid to Dr Eva Carneiro, who says she was called a ‘daughter of a whore’ in Portuguese by manager Jose Mourinho when she rushed on to the pitch to treat an injured player against his wishes during a Chelsea match last August.
By coming to the aid of Chelsea player Eden Hazard, Dr Carneiro temporarily removed him from the game during the final minutes when Chelsea were straining every sinew to score a winner against Swansea. Her intervention sent the highly-strung Mourinho berserk.