Old feuds within Chelsea have resurfaced after a documentary about Jose Mourinho brought back into focus the infamous incident between the Portuguese coach and the team's former doctor, Eva Carneiro, in 2015.
Carneiro was heavily criticized by Mourinho after she entered the field to treat Eden Hazard during Chelsea's match against Swansea City in the opening of the 2015-2016 season, which caused the team to temporarily go off with nine players, after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois had been sent off.
After Mourinho and former Chelsea captain John Terry appeared in the documentary to talk about the incident, Carneiro decided to respond via her X platform account, expressing her displeasure at the reopening of the case after 11 years.
The former doctor wrote: "After 11 years, here we are experiencing the worst again. I hope they made some money."
She also sent a direct message to Terry, after he spoke about an understanding within the dressing room that the medical staff would not enter the field of play except in cases of serious injury.
Carneiro said: "We are bound by a legal medical code of conduct. Frankly, it would be good for John Terry to learn the rules of the game. Enough is enough, mate."
For his part, Mourinho did not change his stance on the incident, as he confirmed during the documentary that he believed that Hazard did not need treatment, and that the entry of the medical staff onto the field caused Chelsea to be temporarily down to ten players, then to nine players, with the numerical shortage continuing.
The Portuguese coach explained that he was not satisfied with the medical staff's behavior, noting that his outburst came at a moment when the match was extremely tense and the result was at stake.
Terry, however, confirmed that Chelsea players and medical staff were following what he described as an "unwritten agreement" stipulating that doctors would not enter the pitch except in cases of extreme necessity.
In contrast, Carneiro maintains that her intervention was a fulfillment of her professional duty, explaining that referee Michael Oliver requested the presence of the medical staff, and that Hazard himself had asked for help.
She confirmed that the instructions she received from the referee and the player made her intervention something she could not ignore as a doctor.
She also referred to the position of the British Association of Sports Medicine and Exercise Medicine, which confirms that the referee's request for the medical staff to be present places upon him a duty of care towards the player and an assessment of his condition.
Thus, the statements in the Netflix documentary have reignited one of Chelsea's most famous crises of the past decade, after many thought that the dispute between Carneiro and Mourinho was a thing of the past.
