Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger remains tight-lipped before José Mourinho showdown

Despite a series of journalistic attempts to get Arsène Wenger to engage in an opinion on anything even vaguely to do with José Mourinho at the pre-match press conference, the Arsenal manager’s stance was crystal clear.

For someone who normally speaks freely on any topic, the Chelsea manager was a non-starter. Nada. Zip. The history of mutual antipathy runs deep and when Wenger said he did not wish to comment on whether he would shake the Chelsea manager’s hand, his expression tightening, the tension this whole brouhaha provokes was palpable.

The irony was Wenger was so adamant not to inflame this particularstory but this deliberate stance not to discuss it – so unusual for him – was revealing enough to set off a sort of simmering anyway. The assembled journalists were left attempting to analyse the deeper meaning of a cluster of no comments.

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