Jose Mourinho was actually uncharacteristically level-headed when speaking about Arsene Wenger in his press conference ahead of Arsenal’s trip to Manchester United.

Most of the time, the former Chelsea boss can’t seem to help himself from making at least one thinly veiled jab towards Wenger. However, this time around he seems to be approaching the fixture with only minor bitterness, at least on the surface.

“For me the only thing that matters is what you get globally as a team, our results, our cv. In the Premier League tomorrow is a match between the two managers with the best record in the Premier League,” he said.

“Between us we are speaking about six or seven Premier League titles, I have three and Mr Wenger has three or four.”

We’ll see how quickly this turns nasty if anything untoward happens during the game on Saturday.

The two managers have a fiery past and it can easily spill over on the touch line.

However, for the time being, it’s comfortable to hear Mourinho actually acknowledging that Wenger has won the same amount of Premier League trophies as him considering not that long ago he was calling him a ‘specialist in failure’.

“If he is right and I am afraid of failure it is because I didn’t fail many times. Eight years without silverware, that’s failure,” he said back in 2014.

“He’s a specialist in failure. If I do that in Chelsea, eight years, I leave and don’t come back.”

Hopefully, for once, the match itself will be the focus instead of the two managers shaking or not shaking hands.