Presumably, Mourinho was referring to Wenger’s not too inflammatory suggestion that other Premier League managers were playing down their title chances because they “fear to fail”. It certainly did not merit the sort of charmless put down the Portuguese responded with but, to be fair to Mourinho, you would also have to search far and wide to find any hint of a genuine compliment from Wenger towards him. So we can forget warm hugs and congrats on Saturday. After all the comments flying around, what would it be like coming face to face?