Chelsea Manager Antonio conte has succeeded where Arsene Wenger and Pep Guardiola have failed by standing up to bully boy Jose moutinho.

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Antonio Conte continued a vicious war of words with Jose Mourinho on SaturdayThe Chelsea boss indulged reporters following a drab FA Cup draw with NorwichConte is the first of Mourinho's rivals to bloody his nose in a verbal battleHe called the United boss a hypocrite and described him as a 'little, little man'Arsene Wenger and Pep Guardiola never dare to go as personal as Mourinho

Antonio Conte had just finished his latest contribution to the most vicious row of the Premier League era when he was invited to start another. Was there any temptation to pick up the phone and call Jose Mourinho, he was asked.

He looked ready to go again, to add to what had already been an astonishing sequence of comments, when Chelsea’s director of communications stepped in.

Enough had been said, it was explained, and at this point, in surveying the mouth-frothing progression from ‘clown’ to ‘senile’ to ‘match fixing’ to ‘little, little man’, who would disagree?

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A BITTER HISTORY OF MUTUAL DISLIKE

OCT 2016 — United lose 4-0 to Mourinho's former club and he accuses Chelsea boss Conte of ‘humiliating’ him with his celebrations.

MARCH 2017 – The pair square up on the touchline at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea knock 10-man United out of the FA Cup with a 1-0 win.

JULY 2017 – Conte says new champions Chelsea ‘want to avoid the Mourinho season’, in reference to how they collapsed after their 2015 title win.

OCT 2017 – Mourinho says other managers ‘cry’ over injuries. Conte says: ‘He has to think about his team and start looking at himself, not others.’

NOV 2017 – Chelsea beat United 1-0 and there is no handshake at full time.

JAN 2018 – After exchanges in press conferences, Mourinho says: ‘What never happened to me, and will never happen to me, is to be suspended for match-fixing.’ Conte hits back by labelling Mourinho a ‘little man’.

Except, it almost certainly will continue, particularly around the next meeting, when Manchester United host Chelsea on February 25. But what is interesting in all this bile is Conte’s withering onslaught on Mourinho after a dull 0-0 FA Cup draw at Norwich is yet another instance of the Portuguese taking a beating.

Indeed, just as he used to be a serial title winner, he was once also the master of the mouth.

Now, he is miles behind Pep Guardiola in the table, a winner of one league crown in the past five-and-a-half seasons, and he has been fronted up and knocked down by Conte in this row.

That is not to endorse some of Conte’s messages — what he said about senile dementia was tasteless — and none of this reflects that well on either of them. But it is telling on the matter of Mourinho’s diminishing aura that Conte is the first manager to stand up to him and give as much as he’s taken.

Arsene Wenger could never do it, through all that nasty ‘voyeur’ business and the ‘specialist in failure’ episode.

He still makes his retorts, usually a swipe about some point on football’s aesthetics and offers them with the odd smirk, but he has, in essence, been using Queensberry Rules against a street fighter holding a broken bottle.

Not an innocent party by any means, just ill-equipped to get down and dirty with a man who seems drawn to that kind of chaos.
The same goes for Guardiola, to a certain degree. In Spain, he hated these storms that Mourinho would whip up at Real Madrid, the fluff and noise that would cloud and shape narratives while Barcelona were busy winning the majority of trophies during their overlapping spells.

Despite this exchange, Arsene Wenger has not come close to the personal insults he received

Pep Guardiola always saw Mourinho's campaign against his Barcelona as a distraction