Rome - Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho was expected to receive a disciplinary sanction Wednesday for his verbal attacks against Roma, Juventus and the media.

Mourinho heated up a dispute that began late Sunday after a controversial spot kick helped the Serie A leaders salvage a 3-3 home draw with Roma.

A sports judge Tuesday suspended Roma coach Luciano Spalletti for one game for insulting the referee after the game, but the Italian football federation (FIGC) also disapproved of Mourinho's remarks during a press conference Wednesday and suggested a sanction from the sports justice.

"I don't like intellectual prostitution, I like intellectual honesty," Mourinho said. "I think that in the last days there has been a great intellectual manipulation, a great work to change and manipulate public opinion," he said.

"No one talked about Juve, who won many points, but so many, through referee mistakes."

Citing an alleged alliance between Roma and Juventus, who lie second seven points from Inter, Mourinho added that he feels close to the coaches of Catania, Atalanta and Fiorentina, who lost three points against Juve.

"If I were the coach of Udinese and Torino (this weekend's opponents of Roma and Juve), I would rather not play, or field the youth team.

"Even for us (Inter) it would be better not to play this weekend because the day of a big scandal is about to come."

FIGC said that Mourinho's tone only fuelled tensions and that "his comments are of no use to football."

Juve president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli said earlier this week that slow-motion footage showed that the referee was wrong in awarding a penalty to Inter, adding that the call was not easy on the pitch.

"Referee mistakes sometimes favour one team, sometimes they are against it," Cobolli Gigli said. "But I don't think there is any kind of will. For sure, Inter are not among the most penalized clubs, and I can understand the disappointment of Roma."

After Mourinho's attack, Juve issued a message on their web site, inviting Inter to distance themselves from their coach's opinions.

Inter replied that they fully supported Mourinho's ideas and appreciated his style.

Fabrizio Bocca, writing on daily la Repubblica, was one of many commentators urging all sides to calm down.

"Someone must end this bullfight, or for the next Juventus-Inter (on April 19) we may just as well start slapping each other, having run out of words," he wrote. (dpa)