Chelsea Boss Jose Mourinho has played down his rivalry with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger before Sunday’s top-of-the-table derby at Emirates stadium.
The pair clashed last year at Stamford Bridge but Mourinho thinks their relationship is “not important”.
Mourinho said: “The only thing that matters is the football game. For me, he is not my rival.
“He is the manager of a big club in the same city where I work. It is a big club with the same objectives we have.”
Chelsea are 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League with six games remaining.
They will be champions if they beat Arsenal, who have won eight league games in a row, and Leicester in their next two matches.
Wenger’s Arsenal have never beaten a Mourinho side.
Mourinho said his relationship with Wenger was the same as he had experienced at previous clubs.
He said: “It is no different from when I was at Inter with the Milan manager, at Real with the Atletico manager, or Porto with Benfica. It was the same.”
Mourinho called Wenger a “voyeur” in 2005 over comments he made about events at Stamford Bridge and last year described the Frenchman as a “specialist in failure”.
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