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Arsene Wenger Facing No Suspension For Jose Mourinho Bout
By Josh Sippie
It’s been the talk of the town since it happened. Arsene Wenger shoved Jose Mourinho, not once but twice. It was a testy match all over the pitch, as Arsenal vs Chelsea normally is, but this was the first time it escalated to the point of managers shoving each other (or rather, one manager shoving another).
The extravaganza started when Alexis Sanchez bore a dirty, rotten, two-footed, should-have-been-red-carded challenge from Chelsea’s Gary Cahill. Wenger, who was equal parts concerned and disgusted, made a straight line from “Point A to Point B” as he told the press (point B being Alexis, not Mourinho).
Unfortunately for him, Jose Mourinho had other plans for Wenger’s stroll, and he stepped in front of him.
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Wenger is normally a level-headed individual and I’d wager money that this never happens again (although I wouldn’t mind), but he wanted to check on his player and he was being prevented from it by his Portuguese counterpart, who became the source of Wenger’s ire and received two “small shoves” (as Wenger put it).
The referee did his best to diffuse the situation and no further incidents were had (at least not by the managers) (unless you count the hand shake skippage).
Many awaited a suspension on Wenger for his actions, but they never came and for good reason. Wenger may have shoved an opposing manager, but that wasn’t his original objective. He merely wanted to check on one of his star players (an expensive one at that) and a man he already had zero respect for stepped in his way and prevented his progress.
Mourinho is equally responsible for what happened as Wenger is.
What would have happened had he let Wenger go? He would have gotten to Sanchez, been told by the ref to go back to his technical area, complained about the challenge, and obeyed the ref. Mourinho had no business stepping in front of Wenger, his only business was to start a minor ruckus, which he succeeded in.
Not only was it not entirely Wenger’s fault, but Wenger has absolutely no history of this sort of behavior, so the FA was right in their decision to just let it go.