Mourinho Explains Loss To Arsenal, Wenger's Handshake Snub

Following Sunday’s 0-1 loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield preseason friendly, Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, has stated that his team was better than Arsenal. According to BBC Sports, the former Real Madrid of Spain coach threw a jibe at his Arsenal counterpart, Arsene Wenger, stating that the Frenchman ignored his philosophy of free flowing football for a defensive approach to the encounter. The best team lost. And the defensive team won. If you want to be pragmatic, like I normally am, I say in a simple way, they score, they didn’t concede. Well done. Congratulations,” he said. Other clubs, other managers you say are boring, that they park the bus, I don’t agree with that. I say they were very well organised and because of that I give total credit,”the Chelsea boss noted further.

Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, snubbed Arsene Wenger, during last weekend’s Community Shield loss to Arsenal. On the purported handshake snub of Wenger in the former Monaco gaffer’s first ever
win against the self-styled “Special One”, the Chelsea coach denied ever coming up with such tantrum, claiming however, that his counterpart may have done that purposely.
Since February last year when Mourinho called Wenger “a specialist in failure”, and the Arsenal boss replying that his Chelsea counterpart was being “disrespectful”, the pair have had tensions mounting.
And after Arsenal’s win on Sunday, Mourinho shook hands with the Arsenal players after they had collected the shield but missed Wenger when the Frenchman walked behind him.
Wenger said: “I shook a few hands today after the game, but there’s nothing special there. I believe in a job where you have to respect people and respect everybody.
And Mourinho explained what happened, or did not happen, to BBC Radio 5 live reporter Juliette Ferrington thus:
JF: “You shook the hands of all the Arsenal players after they were presented with the shield but you didn’t shake the hand of Arsene Wenger?”
JM: “It is not true, It is not true. You have to look at it and it’s not true.”
JF: “We saw you.”
JM: “No you didn’t. You saw me wait for them and shake the hands of everyone who left the stairs just in my direction, so you are not right.”
Mourinho had blasted the Frenchman over his spending spree in the last year, claiming that the Arsenal manager did not win a trophy despite the huge amount of money spent on buying players.