Another row erupted in the tunnel as Antonio Conte physically clashed with Chelsea player

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Tottenham manager Antonio Conte continued to rub Chelsea up the wrong way in the tunnel after yesterday’s heated 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge.

The Italian tactician was back at his old club, and will have been fired up after seeing Spurs snatch a late equaliser from Harry Kane to come away from their rivals with a hard-earned point.

Conte is known for being a passionate and animated character on the touchline, and he clashed with his opposite number Thomas Tuchel on more than one occasion during the game and just after.

According to the Sun, things continued afterwards as Conte barged into Chelsea midfielder Mateo Kovacic, who hadn’t even been involved in the game.

Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte clashed on the touchline

The report adds that this led to Kovacic angrily confronting the Spurs coaching staff, who had earlier had to keep Conte apart from Tuchel.

It made a refreshing change to see this kind of intense rivalry in a big game in the Premier League, as it feels like a while since things have really blown up like this.

It might not quite be Ferguson-Wenger yet, but it seems there’s no love lost between Conte and Tuchel, which should make things interesting when they meet again later this season.

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4 Comments

  1. Whilst I love to see finally see some passion from a Spurs manager, I really can’t condone it.
    I work in a school and footballers attitudes on the pitch really does impact on kids behaviours in the classroom, especially the ones who play football.
    They should be able to control themselves, and set a good example to the kids of today, it’s bad enough seeing Premier League players confronting referees and cheating play acting that they’ve been hurt, some of them look like they’ve been shot by a sniper in the crowd.

    1. I agree with you totally. I have been a football coach for 20 years The problem for me is not the children. The problem is the adults who watch it think it’s alright to do the same kind of thing when they’re watching the kids play football. Gives youth football a bad name. Believe it I’ve seen it.

  2. As a long suffering Spurs fan, this was wonderful to see. Both Conte and what some players did.

    Finally we have a team and manager willing to scrap and indulge in some ‘dark arts’. So ironic it was against the past masters of this. How many times have us Spurs fans had to endure this from Chelsea, whilst we outplayed them on the pitch? So great to see the tables turned. We won’t play that poorly again for a while, so to get a point under those circumstances was so refreshing.

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