Wenger plays down Jose’s ‘face break’ threat

LONDON: Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he preferred to avoid a “destructive mode” as he played down claims that adversary Jose Mourinho had once wanted to “break

LONDON: Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he preferred to avoid a “destructive mode” as he played down claims that adversary Jose Mourinho had once wanted to “break his face”.

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The Arsenal manager said he was concentrating solely on the Gunners’ clash with Chelsea and did not want to linger on the controversial quote, contained in a new biography of Mourinho being serialised in the Daily Mail newspaper. Wenger clashed repeatedly with Mourinho when the Portuguese was in charge of London rivals Chelsea.

According to the new biography, Mourinho allegedly once told the author, football journalist Rob Beasley, when discussing Wenger: “I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face.”