ARSENE WENGER VS JOSE MOURINHO - "WAR OF WORDS ROUND 9"

ARSENE WENGER VS JOSE MOURINHO WAR OF WORDS ROUND 9

Arguably the toughest and longest running verbal battle in Football,Jose and his counterpart Arsene are at it again,the latest round ignited after Wenger accused Mourinho of "fearing to fail" the Portuguese tactician fired back by claiming Wenger is already a "Specialist at Failing".

Here are all 9 rounds of their verbal battle........

FEBRUARY 2005

ARSENE 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."

 - ARSENE WENGER defends himself after being critiziced for fielding an all foreign squad in a match against Crystal Palace.

AUGUST 2005

ARSENE 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."

- ARSENE WENGER accuses Mourinho of using negative tactics.

OCTOBER 2005

JOSE 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."

- JOSE MOURINHO replies to Arsene Wenger's heavy criticism of Chelsea’s transfer activity

NOVEMBER 2005

ARSENE WENGER : "He’s out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes."

- ARSENE WENGER threatens to take legal action against Mourinho for calling him a 'voyeur'.

JOSE 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."

- JOSE MOURINHO responds to Wenger's threat by defending his strong attack of Wenger and claims to have the Frenchman's Chelsea insults on record.

APRIL 2007

ARSENE 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."

- ARSENE WENGER responds after Chelsea's 2007 League Cup final win over Arsenal

NOVEMBER 2007

JOSE MOURINHO : "Unlike Arsenal, we sought success and tried to build it through a concept of the game using English players."

- JOSE MOURINHO accuses Wenger's lack of home grown and Arsenal’s policy in his book.

APRIL 2008

JOSE MOURINHO : "The English like statistics a lot. Do they know that Arsene Wenger has only 50 percent of wins in the English league?"

- JOSE MOURINHO takes another dig at Wenger,some months after leaving Chelsea by 'mutual consent'

NOVEMBER 2010

ARSENE 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."

- ARSENE 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.

JOSE 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.

- JOSE MOURINHO slaps back, bringing out the classic ‘lack of success’ insult.

FEBRUARY 2014

ARSENE 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."

- ARSENE WENGER says the title is Chelsea's to lose and that Mourinho is playing down his own team's chances because of a fear of faiure.

JOSE 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."

- JOSE MOURINHO responds quickly with the hardest blow yet, claiming that Wenger is a 'failure specialist'.