It was almost certainly a cynical and deliberate act that he knew would get a reaction.
- You've just seen your team play a fairly spineless game and be well beaten by your PL rivals, who weren't even really close to their best.
- You've been bleating about the other team being divers all week yet have seen one of your own players booked for a clear dive.
- You've heard your own fans call for some attacking football and heard the opposition fans mock you.
- You've see a flare thrown at an opposition player.
- Your lingering title hopes, which depended on a win here, have gone off a cliff.
- You've seen a centre forward you paid at least £75m for provide the assists for the opposition goals.
- You're well practiced in the dark acts of deflection anyway.
So what better than a post-match bust-up, manufactured by your provocative and unnecessary action, to deflect attention from your problems.
And herein lies the difference between the eye-gouger and baconface. The latter would have used that match and our post-match celebrations to fire up his players in the right way and ensure they didn't suffer another embarrassing defeat. He would have stiffened their backbones and made sure he got a positive reaction from it. Instead, Mourinho has shown himself to be weak, only interested in protecting his own ego and has quite possibly disrupted his players' mental attitudes, at the expense of trying to cover up his and his team's deficiencies.