JOSE Mourinho has insisted that English football will lose credibility after no action was taken against Burnley striker Ashley Barnes - but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke described the Chelsea manager’s complaints as ‘tactical’.

Mourinho has hit out at the FA’s decision not to suspend Barnes after the Clarets star was involved in the incident that led to Nemanja Matic’s red card at Stamford Bridge last weekend.

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Matic is serving a two-match ban for the dismissal and Mourinho thinks the two verdicts are damaging for the English game.

“I have worked in so many different countries and I know what the Premier League – what English football – means in every country,” he said.

“The dimension of the Premier League: not just the audiences and the millions of people who watch, but the feeling and envy they have for English football… the respect and credibility.

“For example, in a very important newspaper in my country, after the Burnley game the headline was: ‘We thought this was only possible in Portugal, never in England’.

“The depth of this message, you understand? This is something English football cannot lose. The credibility in which English football is held has taken a long time to build and will take a long time to lose.

“These words were not just in Portugal. They were everywhere. We must take care of our football. I’m not English but I have worked here a long time and I have to believe it belongs to me.

“You lose credibility when a player like Matic is suspended, and another player (Barnes) can play.”

But FA chairman Dyke was taking Mourinho’s comments with a pinch of salt.

“I don’t get involved in the politics,” Dyke said. “Managers say all sorts of things either through disappointment or to get tactical advantage.”