Antonio Conte embarasses himself by going 'full Tottenham' over dig at Mikel Arteta and Arsenal

I have missed this. Mikel Arteta has been so brilliant as a coach at times for Arsenal, but my goodness do I enjoy a classic managerial spat and the Spaniard rarely breaks from his professional profile. In press conferences, the Gunners manager will respond calmly and with well-drilled deflections to tricky questions.

Antonio Conte however has no such restraint, and the Tottenham coach has prodded Arteta after being questioned on the Arsenal manager’s criticisms of the Premier League fixture scheduling. The Italian was quite clearly still upset about the postponement of the north London derby.

Arsenal had a request to the Premier League for the postponement of the derby in January granted despite having just one positive case of Covid-19. With players away at the African Cup of Nations and a number out injured, the club had enough players unavailable to request the match be suspended.

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Not against any protocol at the time it was granted, and the match is yet to be rescheduled. However, Conte has clearly not forgotten this.

Interrupting the question Conte reacted by saying, “Yeah but I only want Arteta to remember the game postponed. Tottenham - Arsenal, okay? If we speak about unfair. I stop.”

Pushed to answer the question in general he replied, “But In general, I think my answer is enough. Okay, yeah, it's enough. If someone wants to speak about fair or unfair. We postponed the game, Tottenham-Arsenal, if you remember. I don't. I don’t forget this, and I think that it’s not right to speak about fair or unfair.”

The obvious irony in the