Wenger going around in circles

It appears to genuinely infuriate Jose Mourinho, to eat away at his sense of enormous well-being, that Arsene Wenger is not subjected to the whims and fancies of the Managerial Merrygoround.

That Wenger is, as Mourinho insisted last week, “the only manager not under pressure”.

There are many reasons, on a basic behavioural level, why esteem for Wenger has proved more durable to the vagaries of football results than has regard for Mourinho.