Mr Mourinho says proper care is "more important than football"

He was "arguing with reality" by claiming an ambulance was too slow to arrive for Petr Cech, claimed Martin Salter, who represents Reading West.

Mr Mourinho was wrong to "take a pop" at "hard-working" NHS staff, he said.

Mr Mourinho said the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. Medics say it took seven minutes once one was called.

"He's arguing with the facts," Mr Salter told BBC Radio Berkshire.

"The Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service did a brilliant job. They got there in seven minutes.

"It was the Chelsea doctor that waited over 20 minutes before they actually decided they wanted to call an ambulance."

When the only man on God's Earth who says it's deliberate is Jose Mourinho - well, who does the public believe? Martin Salter MP

He also asked how Mr Mourinho could justify his remarks suggesting there was intent in the challenge by Reading player Stephen Hunt in which his knee was in collision with Petr Cech's head.

He said a "world-respected goalkeeper like Bob Wilson, who viewed the incident... said it was quite clearly an accident with no intent".

Equally, "every other serious commentator from Alan Shearer to Gary Lineker says quite clearly that there's no intent" and "the referee standing 10 yards away says there was no intent", Mr Salter - who was elected as a Labour MP in 1997 - added.

"When the only man on God's Earth who says it's deliberate is Jose Mourinho - well, who does the public believe?"

Chelsea's highly rated first choice goalkeeper Cech was injured in the collision in the first minute of Saturday's Premiership match at the Madejski Stadium.

Mr Mourinho has claimed that "serious questions" needed answering on the club's medical facilities, including an explanation as to why Cech "couldn't leave the dressing room properly" and had to be transported by wheelchair into a lift.

But Reading said another route to the ambulance "could have been taken, and was offered", but this was declined by Chelsea's medical staff.