Jose Mourinho took
his escalating feud with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte to
a new level on Friday night.The Manchester
United boss hit back during his post-match press conference
after Conte suggested he was becoming 'senile' earlier in the day
The Chelsea manager's own barb had come because he thought Mourinho had accused him of acting like a clown on the touchline, and the United manager said: 'Look, I don't blame him (for the reaction), honestly I don't blame him. I was speaking about myself, saying I don't need to behave as a clown to show passion, that I control my emotions in a better way.
'What never happened to me, and what
will never happen to me, is to be suspended for match-fixing, that never
happened to me and will never happen.'
That was a thinly veiled reference to when Conte was implicated in a match-fixing scandal while manager of Siena in Italy seven years ago. He was suspended for 10 months, then reduced to four while managing Juventus in 2012.
Mourinho believes his remarks on
touchline etiquette were taken out of context.
'I don't need the Chelsea manager to say
that I made mistakes in the past,' he said. 'I will make them in the future. I
know that I celebrated goals running 50 metres, that I celebrated goals sliding
on my knees, I celebrated by jumping to the crowd.
'I'm not free of that, especially if we
score a winning goal in a specific moment, I'm not free to have an
out-of-control reaction but what I was trying to say was I behaved bad a few
times and in this moment I control myself much better.'
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