They might be starting the season with an identical objective but the similarities soon end when you consider the recent history and wider working environment of the two men occupying the dugouts at Wembley on Sunday afternoon.

Antonio Conte is arguably the most successful manager in all of world football over these past five years following titles in each of his last four club seasons across Serie A and the Premier League but there are indications already of simmering frustrations at Chelsea’s structure and transfer strategy.

Arsene Wenger has not won a league title since 2004 but it still came as little surprise earlier this summer that he should extend his Arsenal contract and, for all the alterations to his backroom team, there remains little doubt as to who is making all the significant football decisions.

Even when there was a rare but significant divergence in the public pronouncements of Wenger and his chief executive Ivan Gazidis over the club’s strategy this summer and the supposed “catalyst for change”, they were still lunching together.

The smart money was always on two of the more calm and rationale people in football working through their differences of opinions.