Football clubs, including those in the Premier League, always have special competitions with each other, apart from competing in the table or for quotas. This is not limited to the inside of the pitch, and coaches often engage directly with each other.
This article takes a look at the major controversies that have existed between coaches working in the English Football League. A competition that is not limited to the teams of these coaches, and many times their behavior along the line has created controversial moments.
Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish
A pure competition in the Premier League. Manchester United won the Premier League in the first two years under Alex Ferguson; The second championship was won by a very close distance to Blackburn in the 1993-94 season.
But Blackburn, who had Kenny Dalglish on the bench, took revenge the following season. The team won the last day of the tournament dramatically despite losing to Liverpool. Manchester United would have won the last game if they had won against West Ham, but that game ended in a draw.
Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish
A pure competition in the Premier League. Manchester United won the Premier League in the first two years under Alex Ferguson; The second championship was won by a very close distance to Blackburn in the 1993-94 season.
But Blackburn, who had Kenny Dalglish on the bench, took revenge the following season. The team won the last day of the tournament dramatically despite losing to Liverpool. Manchester United would have won the last game if they had won against West Ham, but that game ended in a draw.
No one was surprised when Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger clashed on the pitch or insulted each other at press conferences.
The story of their long-running feud began in 2005 when Arsene Wenger criticized Mourinho’s negative tactics. It was then that Mourinho called Arsenal’s French boss a “watchdog”. Wenger had previously called the Portuguese coach “useless, disrespectful and irrelevant to reality”.
The dispute between the two resumed with Mourinho returning to the Premier League with Chelsea in 2013. Mourinho called Wenger a “master of failure” a few months after joining the Premier League, and when Arsenal played Chelsea in 2014, Wenger pushed Mourinho and the others were forced to separate.
Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez
The feud between the two began when Mourinho competed with Chelsea’s Rafa Benitez in the Premier League as Chelsea manager, and then led to the two teams’ matches in the Champions League.
The controversy culminated in the 2005 Champions League match between Liverpool and Chelsea, where the Reds reached the final with a goal from Luis Garcia. At the time, there was no word on goal-scoring technology on the goal line, and when the referee confirmed the suspicious goal, Mourinho called it a “ghost goal”.
Benitez, like Mourinho, was critical of Mourinho’s style of play, which is probably why Mourinho refused to shake hands with the Portuguese coach after their match in 2006. “We have our special gentlemen here; they are our spectators,” Benitez said sarcastically in 2007 as Mourinho.
Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez
The rivalry started when Benitez was Liverpool manager and continued when the Spanish coach sat on the Chelsea bench.
The dispute between the two culminated in January 2009. Benitez, who was at the top of the table at the time, pulled out a piece of paper at a press conference and read out the “facts” that Manchester United and Alex Ferguson wanted to influence English referees and officials.
“The mistake he made was to personalize the rivalry between us. When you personalize something with me, you have no chance, because I’ll wait for you,” Ferguson said in his autobiography.
Mark Hughes and Tony Pulis
The story of the two dates back to 2010, when Mark Hughes, as Fulham coach, refused to shake hands with Stoke City coach Tony Pulis after playing in the FA Cup. Piolis retaliated a few months later.
The story, however, continued until 2017. Hughes was the manager of Stoke City at the time, and Paulis was in charge of Westbrom, but there was still no news of a loss; “He does not like to shake hands,” Hughes said after the match.
Alan Pardo and Manuel Pellegrini
The clash between the two coaches was more limited to one match, but many football fans still remember it. In 2014, Pardo, who was the manager of Newcastle, insulted Manuel Pellegrini, the 60-year-old Manchester City manager on the pitch, who was recorded by television cameras.
Pardo later said: “I realized that what I had said was heard and I apologized to them 100 percent. In a hot moment of the game we talk, all the coaches are like that. I apologized to him and he happily accepted. “
Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho
Mourinho won the English Premier League three times with Chelsea, but his feud with Antonio Conte began at Stamford Bridge in 2016. Chelsea crushed Mourinho, who had Mourinho on the bench, 4-0 under Conte, and Mourinho did not like Conte’s happiness after the fourth goal.
The following season, Mourinho said that some coaches behaved “like clowns” and seemed to mean Antonio Conte and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.
Conte replied that Mourinho had forgotten about himself and the way he behaved during his coaching career. In 2018, Conte called Mourinho “fake” and “dwarf”.
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