José Mourinho has opted not to appeal against a one-match stadium ban and will be absent as Chelsea confront Stoke City on Saturday, but has stressed he will retain “every responsibility” for the way in which his players perform.

The Portuguese suggested he might simply remain on the team bus when the Premier League champions arrive at the Britannia stadium, or “sit on a street corner”, and watch the game on his iPad having gone through various scenarios to prepare his assistants, Rui Faria and Steve Holland, who will direct affairs from the dugout.

Mourinho was sent to the stands at West Ham after refusing to leave the referee’s room at the interval where he had been questioning the dismissals of Nemanja Matic and his assistant Silvino Louro. The 52-year-old is now not permitted at the ground on match day and, while the Football Association has indicated it will not police him during the game with the ban effectively designed to keep him away from the match officials, he is technically not allowed to contact his staff at any point until after the final whistle.

“I travel with the team and will be with them until the moment somebody stops me, which is, I think, when I am in the limit of the compound of the stadium,” said Mourinho. “We know when I have to stop. I don’t know (where I will watch the game). I have no plans. Maybe I sit on the street corner with my iPad. I don’t know. Maybe I don’t even watch the game. I can’t contact my staff during the game. Why? Maybe Twitter, Livescore. I don’t know.”

Asked who would be in charge of changes during the game, whether tactical tweaks or substitutions, he explained: “Me. I will be in charge. Every responsibility is my responsibility. My staff are completely free of that extra pressure. That doesn’t belong to their jobs. It’s my responsibility. If, after 10 minutes, we are playing with seven men, it’s something I didn’t prepare my assistants for. They’d have to decide themselves. But we tried to reduce (the decisions needed to be made).

“The game is unpredictable. We don’t know the direction it will go in many aspects, but we try to reduce them. That we did. The most incredible scenarios you can imagine (we prepared). Let’s go to extremes: at half-time winning or losing 4-0.

“In between this, you have 1,000 options: be dominating and controlling the game; being dominated and not controlling the game; having problems with this or that area; injuries or red cards of the goalkeeper, the right-back, the centre-half, the striker, the winger. We went through all these different scenarios. They are prepared. But what is also important is for them to feel protected by the fact that it’s my responsibility. It’s just for the players to play, and for the assistants to be with them and supportive with them.”

Mourinho, who is the first Premier League manager to suffer a stadium ban since Alan Pardew head-butted Hull’s David Meyler while in charge of Newcastle in January 2014, suggested there had been no point appealing the disciplinary commission’s decision to suspend him “because it’s stupid to fight a fight you know already you’ll lose”. He fears the sanction has now set a precedent in terms of language used by managers towards the officials.

“Well, you can imagine that is not easy,” he added, when asked how difficult the experience will be. “You can imagine how I feel. And I don’t want to speak a lot about it because, to speak about it, I have to go deeper. I have to go to the dimension of the situation. One thing is not to be on the bench. Because, against West Ham, the referee told me not to be on the bench in the second half. But nobody told me to leave the stadium.

“At this moment, I am stopped not just to do my work, but from going to a football stadium and being at something I like so much. Football. If I go to the dimension of the punishment, I think it opens a range of situations and options that I can imagine, in the future, we are going to have lots of managers with stadium bans because a stadium ban should relate to something really, really serious in terms of aggression.

“This stadium ban is connected to words. To complaints. So, I imagine, in this moment it’s open, in the future, for the stadium ban to happen many more times. But I know the situation where I am in relation to the football power in this country, and I have to adapt. I have to adapt to it.”