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This week marks the 20th anniversary of Arsene Wenger\u2019s first press conference as Arsenal manager, and to mark the occasion, we\u2019re looking back at some of his most memorable comments aimed at opposition managers.
\n\u201cNo. Perhaps he sent it by horse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenger\u2019s response when asked if he\u2019d received an apology from Sir Alex Ferguson in January 1999.
\n\u201cEveryone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenger\u2019s response following Ferguson\u2019s claim in November 2002 that United had been the best side in the Premier League that season.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t like the way Sam Allardyce prepared that game with the referee. He put him under unbelievable pressure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenger criticised the then-Bolton manager in April 2003 after Arsenal threw away a two-goal advantage at the Reebok Stadium in the race for the title.
\n\u201cFerguson should calm down. Maybe it would have been better if he had put us against a wall and shot us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another swipe at Sir Alex Ferguson was in response to the United manager\u2019s claims that Arsenal received preferential treatment from officials after the heated affair at Old Trafford in October 2004.
\n\u201cFerguson doesn\u2019t interest me and doesn\u2019t matter to me at all. I will never answer to any provocation from him anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was handbags at dawn in January 2005 after the United manager labelled Wenger as \u201ca disgrace\u201d.
\n\u201cHe\u2019s out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenger fired shots at Jose Mourinho in response to his claim that Wenger was a \u201cfootball voyeur\u201d.
\n\u201cYou cannot say it is football anymore. It is more rugby on the goalkeepers than football. When you see the way Shawcross kicked Heurelho Gomes, how Robert Huth pushed Gomes in the goal, you cannot say that is football anymore.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenger\u2019s beautiful football teams have often struggled against more physical opposition and this dig was aimed at then-Stoke manager Tony Pulis\u2019 tactics in September 2010.
\n\u201cIn hindsight I think I should not have reacted at all. It\u2019s not a way to behave on a football field. Did Mourinho provoke me? That is how I felt. I did not enter Chelsea\u2019s technical area.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 2014 saw a particularly heated game between Chelsea and Arsenal, with tensions bubbling over on the touchline. Wenger\u2019s comment refers to him shoving Jose Mourinho in the technical area.<\/p>\n

Words by @dominictrant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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