Eva Carneiro Responds to Mourinho and Terry's Comments

Eva Carneiro has reignited her feud with José Mourinho and John Terry, accusing them of dragging her back into “the worst” period of her career after both revisited the incident that led to her Chelsea exit 11 years ago.

The former Chelsea team doctor was thrust back into the spotlight by the new Netflix documentary “Mourinho,” in which the former manager and his captain return to the stormy night at Stamford Bridge in August 2015, when Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn ran on to treat Eden Hazard during a 2-2 draw with Swansea City.

Mourinho still insists they were wrong. Carneiro is having none of it.

Carneiro hits back

Posting on X, she made her feelings plain: “11 years on and here we are reliving the worst. Hope they made some money.”

The documentary shows Mourinho repeating his long-held view that Hazard was not seriously injured and that the medical staff should have stayed off the pitch, with Chelsea already down to 10 men after Thibaut Courtois’ red card. When Carneiro and Fearn entered to treat Hazard, the Belgian had to leave the field, leaving Chelsea with nine players in the closing stages.

Mourinho recalls: “I'm not a doctor but my eyes know when a player is injured and when a player is not injured.

“I knew Eden was not injured but the doctors went on to the pitch and we were left with nine players.

“For me, a lady doctor is the same as a man doctor. So, as always, I used my vocabulary when I'm not happy.

“There are words in moments where the tension is very, very high.

“Normally, people with football culture, with football DNA or with a football background get over it in one second. In that case, it was different.”

Carneiro’s response was sharp and rooted in the rules that govern her profession. She reposted a statement from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine, highlighting that club medics have an “absolute duty of care” to attend and assess a player when called on by the referee.

“So IT IS really simple,” she wrote in a separate post. “Referee Michael Oliver called us on TWICE, player Eden Hazard requested medical assistance we then made eye contact from side line and he confirmed he needed medical assistance, TWICE.

“At that point my hands are bound as a medical professional.”

Terry in the firing line

Terry, who captained Chelsea that day, backed Mourinho’s version in the documentary, saying there had been a clear understanding between players and medical staff.

“Medically, José would say unless it's really, really bad, then they're not coming on,” Terry said.

“That was the understanding of us as players, the medical staff, everyone bought into that.

“It was a big moment obviously and he took a lot of backlash for that.”

Carneiro turned her fire on her former captain as well.

“We are bound by a medico-legal code of conduct,” she posted. “Genuinely it would be healthy for John Terry to learn the rules of the game. It's been long enough mate.”

Her point was blunt: whatever informal “understandings” existed inside the dressing room, they do not override medical and legal obligations once a referee and player request treatment.

Fallout that never really faded

The Swansea incident detonated inside Chelsea. Carneiro and Fearn were removed from first-team duties in the immediate aftermath. Carneiro left the club the following month and later launched legal proceedings against Chelsea for constructive dismissal, along with a separate claim against Mourinho.

The case reached an employment tribunal in June 2016 before Chelsea and Carneiro agreed a settlement. The club issued an apology to her. Mourinho never did so publicly.

The Football Association cleared Mourinho in September 2015 of making discriminatory comments towards Carneiro during the incident. His position at Chelsea, though, crumbled soon after. Less than three months later, amid a dismal start to their Premier League title defence, he was sacked.

A decade on, the match is long gone, the title challenge forgotten, the squad scattered. Yet one flashpoint between a manager, his captain and his doctor still cuts deep enough that, with a single documentary, the arguments have roared back into life.