"Arsenal stood by Wenger through a lot of bad moments'" - Mourinho takes swipe at Arsene Wenger

Jose Mourinho took a thinly-veiled swipe at Arsene Wenger ahead of Chelsea's meeting with Arsenal on Saturday.

Wenger celebrates his 1,000th match in charge at Stamford Bridge but Mourinho said: 'The tribute is to say that any one of us, we'd love to have the same privilege with our clubs.

'I admire Wenger and I admire Arsenal, a club that stands by their manager in bad moments - of which there were quite a lot.'

When asked if he regrets his specialist in failure comment about Wenger, the Chelsea manager replied: 'Ask him does he regret comment he made... so I can't answer.'

After he was pushed, Mourinho replied: 'Next question'.