Liam Rosenior has claimed he was treated unfairly during his doomed 106 days in charge of Chelsea, and that the way it ended in disaster had ‘nothing to do with football’.

Rosenior was relieved of his duties after losing five consecutive games without scoring. The fifth defeat in that run – a 3-0 loss at Brighton in which Chelsea did not even muster a shot on target – saw the players accused of downing tools to get rid of their head coach. He lasted 106 days in total.

However, Rosenior, now manager of Paris FC, who are fourth in France’s Ligue 1, has claimed his Stamford Bridge sacking was 'nothing to do with football' in a cryptic comment about 'tolerance' in English football.

The 42-year-old Englishman took aim at ‘the media’ in particular as he said in an interview with So Foot: ‘It was the best experience of my life, and the hardest, too. It was fantastic, even though it only lasted four months. I don’t want to go into details now. I’ll talk about it one day, when the time is right. But in a country where tolerance is an important value, what happened there has nothing to do with football.’

Pressed to explain, Rosenior continued: ‘I know, I answered without answering it. Actually, the moment that worried me the most was at the beginning, when we went through that five-game winning streak.

‘Any club would have been happy with such a run, but not Chelsea. You get good results and you’re in the spotlight. Then, there was a kind of snowball effect in the media.

‘They made fun of those instructions I gave (Alejandro) Garnacho on a scrap of paper when we were down to 10 men against PSG (during the second leg in March as they lost 8-2 on aggregate).

'The clothes I wore became a joke, the way I spoke, too. I’m not a joke! You’re the first people I’m talking to about this, and probably the last for a long time, but one day, I’ll tell you what really happened.’

It is unclear whether by ‘the media’, Rosenior meant those reporters who covered the club or social media, where he was routinely mocked and referred to as ‘LinkedIn Liam’.

Those within the actual Chelsea pack who attended Rosenior’s press conferences believe he was treated kindly despite the Blues boss not helping himself at times.

For example, his decision to suddenly drop Robert Sanchez for Filip Jorgensen backfired, especially in their Champions League last-16 first-leg loss away at PSG. When Jorgensen was then injured, Sanchez returned to the starting line-up with his confidence having been dented.

Rosenior also created a stir when he argued with a member of Arsenal’s support staff for encroaching in Chelsea’s half during their warm-up before the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final. He accused his opponents of breaking the ‘etiquettes in football’ afterwards.

After his players huddled around the referee Paul Tierney in the centre circle before a Premier League loss to Newcastle, Rosenior defended their pre-match routine. He described it as being designed to ‘respect the ball’ – words which were also ridiculed on social media, even if that idea did originate from Willie Isa, Chelsea’s hire from rugby league.

Rosenior added in his interview that he was never accepted in the Premier League, saying: ‘In England, there’s this preconceived notion of what a Premier League coach should be, how he should behave. You have to conform to that standard. People who know me know that I’m someone who tries to be sincere and authentic.

‘But I don’t have control over how the media describes me or talks about me. What I’ve understood now, and this is important for all coaches worldwide, is that social media, or the media in general, can dictate public opinion about the quality of a player or a coach.

‘This isn’t new, of course, but the biggest lesson from my time at Chelsea is knowing that they are also capable of constructing the entire narrative around a club’s trajectory.’