The Chelsea and Arsenal bosses are at
each other again as the Portuguese
responded to criticism of having a ‘fear
of failure’ by labeling the Frenchman a
‘specialist in failure'
It seemed as if Jose Mourinho and Arsene
Wenger had put their differences to one
side this season as the two focussed mainly
on the football and less about each other.
However, this was just the calm before the
storm, as the pair are at each other's
throats again, after the Chelsea boss
accused his Arsenal counterpart of being
accustomed to failure.
Here, Goal takes a look at some of the
infamous insults that the pair have traded.
FEBRUARY 2005
Wenger: "Take what Arsenal and Chelsea
have won in the past eight years. I go with
reality, with the football we play and the
challenge we have ahead.
"I don't see especially that Chelsea play
more English players than we do. Who have
they produced, homegrown? Just one, John
Terry."
Wenger defends himself after being
critisiced for fielding an all foreign
squad in a match against Crystal Palace.
AUGUST 2005
Wenger: "I know we live in a world where
we have only winners and losers, but once
a sport encourages teams who refuse to
take the initiative, the sport is in danger."
Mourinho parking the bus? Wenger
accuses Mourinho of using negative
tactics.
OCTOBER 2005
Mourinho: "I think he is one of these
people who is a voyeur. He likes to watch
other people. There are some guys who,
when they are at home, have a big
telescope to see what happens in other
families. He speaks, speaks, speaks about
Chelsea."
Mourinho feels Wenger's criticism of
Chelsea’s transfer activity is becoming
tedious.
NOVEMBER 2005
Wenger: "He’s out of order, disconnected
with reality and disrespectful. When you
give success to stupid people, it makes
them more stupid sometimes."
Wenger threatens to take legal action
against Mourinho for calling him a
'Voyeur'.
Mourinho: "At Stamford Bridge, we have a
file of quotes from Mr Wenger about
Chelsea football club in the last 12 months
- it is not a file of five pages. It is a file of
120 pages so we have a very strong
reaction. My objective is that it is enough."
Mourinho responds by defending his
strong attack of Wenger, and claims to
have the Frenchman's Chelsea insults on
record.
APRIL 2007
Wenger: "If you would like to compare
every manager you give each one the same
amount of resources and say: 'you have
that for five years'. After five years you see
who has done the most."
'Le Professor' takes a cheeky dig at
Mourinho on the eve of Chelsea's 2007
League Cup final win over Arsenal, in
which John Obi Mikel, Kolo Toure and
Emmanuel Adebayor were sent of for
their part in an ugly brawl.
NOVEMBER 2007
Mourinho: "Unlike Arsenal, we sought
success and tried to build it through a
concept of the game using English players."
The 'Special one' points the finger at
Wenger and Arsenal’s policy in his book.
APRIL 2008
Mourinho: "The English like statistics a lot.
Do they know that Arsene Wenger has only
50 per cent of wins in the English league?"
Seven months after leaving Chelsea by
'mutual consent' the Portuguese
manager can't help himself but to have
another swipe at Wenger.
NOVEMBER 2010
Wenger: "You never say it doesn't cross
your mind but when you see how it looks
on television it is the best demonstration to
think: 'Never do that again'.
"It looks, frankly, horrible. It's a pity to see
that from a big club."
Wenger vents his disgust at the now Real
Madrid manager’s decision to get Xabi
Alonso and Sergio Ramos deliberately
cautioned by the referee during a
Champions League match with
Galatasaray.
Mourinho: "Instead of speaking about Real
Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about
Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against
a team in the Champions League for the
first time [Braga]. The history about the
young kids is getting old now. Sagna,
Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Nasri, Van
Persie, Arshavin are not kids. They are all
top players.
Mourinho battles back, bringing out the
classic ‘lack of success’ insult.
FEBRUARY 2014
Wenger: "It is fear to fail. If you are not in
a race, you cannot lose it. If you declare
yourself not in the race, you cannot lose, it
simple as that."
Wenger says that the title is Chelsea's to
lose and that Mourinho is playing down
his own team's chances because of a
fear of faiure.
Mourinho: "So maybe he's right, maybe
I'm not used to failing but the reality is that
he's the specialist because he's had eight
years without a trophy. If I do that in
Chelsea I leave and I don't come back."
Mourinho responds with possibly his
most hard hitting attack yet, claiming
that Wenger is a 'failure specialist'.
And so it rumbles on. The old rivalry has
been sparked again, and that is certainly
not going to be the end of it.
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