Man United boss Mourinho can’t stand specialist in failure Wenger

Jose Mourinho has revealed his hatred for Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, in a sensational new book by journalist Robert Beasley, being serialized by the Daily Mail.

It’s no secret that Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger aren’t the best of friends. Jose Mourinho has called the Arsenal manager a ‘specialist in failure’ and a ‘voyeur’. He has even talked about wanting physically fight Wenger. While Wenger, who has never beaten Mourinho in a competitive match, said that Mourinho was scared of failure.

The duel between Mourinho and Wenger has become one of the biggest and longest-running feuds in English football, and it keeps deteriorating every year. The two have often publicly addressed their dislike for each other nearly every year.

The hostilities were renewed in 2013, when Mourinho returned to Chelsea. Wenger had made a dig at champions-elect Chelsea, playing down their title chances. What Mourinho said after that was vicious and brutal, and became famous with all of Arsenal’s rivals.

He called Wenger a “Specialist in Failure”, adding, “Eight years without a piece of silverware, that’s failure. If I do that at Chelsea I leave London and I don’t come back”. And the Portuguese wasn’t even done yet. A few days later, he told the author of the book, “When Mr Wenger criticises CFC and Man United over the deal with Mata…I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face.”

A few days later, his Chelsea side gave Arsenal a very heavy beating, thrashing them 6-0 at Stamford Bridge. And to make it even more humiliating, it was Wenger’s 1000th game in charge of Arsenal. The embarrassment made Wenger skip his post-match press conference. His excuse was that the Arsenal team coach was about to leave.

Mourinho even mocked Wenger for that. Mourinho loved to hate Wenger. Perhaps that hatred has also made him famous with the Manchester United fans, despite arriving from Chelsea.

The war becomes physical

The sides did not meet again till the 5th October 2014. The match ended 2-0 in Chelsea’s favor. However, the game is remembered more for the angry shoving match that took place on the touchline between the two managers.

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This was the day when the war of words became physical between the two. Arsene Wenger, frustrated to see his side losing to Chelsea yet again, pushed Mourinho. Jose later said, “Here you do that, you know I can’t react, but I will meet you one day in the street.”

Mourinho took a further thinly veiled dig at Wenger on his unveiling as the new Manchester United manager, saying, “Some managers haven’t won a title for ten years. Some of them have never won a title. I won one a year ago. If I have a lot to prove, imagine the others”

For all his stability, Wenger has not been able to match Mourinho’s successes and titles. While Portuguese hasn’t been able to achieve the Frenchman’s longevity at one club, which is something he craves. This rivalry has become one of the biggest in English football, and every time the two face off, it becomes even fiercer. So