ANDRE Villas-Boas has confirmed he will not attend the disciplinary hearing he faces over comments made about Chris Foy, who was referee in Chelsea's controversial game at QPR.

He says he will not go 'because I have other things to do,' and that he does not believe being there would make any difference to the outcome.

“I am not worried,” said the Chelsea boss about the FA hearing.

“I understand that a charge cannot be taken lightly because it's the maximum body of English football, and I respect that, but it doesn't mean that I have to agree with it and it doesn't mean that I have to defend it to death. I think I'm already doing publicly and it's enough.

“It's not for me to go into a panel and explain what I think. It's pretty self-explanatory.”

The Blues boss maintains post-match criticism of Foy centred on what he says were inconsistencies from the official, not on his integrity.

“I said I wouldn't change any of the words that I said because my words weren't saying that referee was biased towards a team,” Villas-Boas said.

“My words were that the referee set out a criteria on the decision-making that he didn't take throughout the game for both teams. Not that he was privileging one team.

“I have to deny the charge, because it implicates that I was calling the referee biased and that I was questioning his integrity, and I was not questioning Chris Foy's integrity.”

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