The Chelsea manager watched his side take their unbeaten home run to 62 games with a goalless draw against the newly-crowned champions, and then revealed that two of his stars will miss out on the first major final at the new Wembley.

Both teams rested a host of first-team players and as a result the game was devoid of quality and clear-cut chances, but Mourinho was more concerned with his injury problems ahead of the cup final.

Ballack has undergone surgery on his ankle and is back in training while Carvalho injured his knee against Bolton two weeks ago.

But Mourinho declared: "Michael Ballack has 0% chance of playing. Ricardo has 1% chance."

Mourinho also played down suggestions that he had a problem with Ballack after he underwent surgery on his ankle in Germany - reportedly against the club's wishes.

He added: "Michael is injured. My relationship with injured players is nothing special. It is true. Injured players are for the medical department. I am the manager and I have to coach fit players - players who are ready to play.

"I remember about injured players and I have them in my mind, because I miss them. But my relationship with injured players is not a special one. I have to concentrate on the players ready to play."

Mourinho would not be goaded further into commenting on Ballack but did express his sympathy for rookie striker Scott Sinclair who broke a metatarsal on his full debut.

Mourinho said: "If you want to talk about injuries, let's talk about Scott. He is a kid playing his first full game for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and in a couple of days he will have surgery on his metatarsal. That is a sad thing."

But Mourinho still managed to make an issue out of referee Graham Poll's performance.

Mourinho mistakenly thought he had been banished to the stands by the official when he criticised his decision to penalise Claude Makelele for a foul on Wayne Rooney.

Mourinho had a pointed exchange with Poll who, earlier in the season, red-carded John Terry in their defeat at Tottenham.

The Portuguese could have been banished from the touchline for the FA Cup final but he escaped that punishment when fourth official Mark Clattenburg beckoned him back into his dugout seat.

However, the Blues coach made no secret of his dislike of Poll's refereeing and, although he would not say it directly, was pleased he would not be officiating at the cup final.

Mourinho revealed: "I thought he had sent me to the stands but no he did not. I cannot remember what it was about but with Mr Poll and Chelsea matches there are so many incidents that I cannot choose one.

"I told him a couple of things I had in my heart since the Tottenham game but nothing special. I was not sent to stands.

"I would not say I am relieved he is not the cup final referee. I just say he is a referee that Chelsea has no luck with.

"If we can have another ref then we are happy. We don't like to have Mr Poll. But the decisions are from the committee (refereeing) and we have to accept them.

"But if you ask me if I jump with happiness when I know Mr Poll is our referee? No."

The Chelsea coach again insisted he was quite happy to acknowledge United as being good enough to take the title from them but remains unhappy the fixture was re-arranged.

It was due to be played on April 15 but switched to the last week of the season because both teams were involved in the FA Cup semi-finals.

Mourinho added: "The only thing that was difficult to accept was the fact we didn't play them on April 15 in the league.

"That is difficult to accept. It is difficult to accept because the Premiership is the best league in the world.

"The best league in the world could not afford this kind of mistake to have a Chelsea versus Manchester United fixture coincided with an FA Cup semi-final. Especially when there is a big, big chance one of the big teams would be involved.

"So to have this game delayed until this moment is very, very bad. This would have been the game every football fan around the world should be eating by TV.

"I am just a football manager but I feel I have the right to say it was not a good decision.

"I am not saying if we had the fixture in the middle of April we would have won or we would have won the Premiership. I just don't think it was the correct decision.

"I have no power. I just have to accept it. This season I had to accept a lot of things I did not like.

"I did not like playing every time after Manchester United but I have to eat. I don't like some refereeing decision but I have to eat too. But this is a moment to congratulate Manchester United - the new champions."