Jose Mourinho has taken a second swipe at Arsenal the day after he announced it was they who played 'boring football' as they haven't won the league title in over a decade.
Mourinho's side drew 0-0 at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday and left the pitch with the home crowd singing: 'Boring Boring Chelsea'.
He responded in the post-match press conference by teasing Arsene Wenger with remarks such as: 'Boring is not winning the title for 10 years' and 'boring is when you want to win a game at home and you take off your No 9.'
And Mourinho has aimed another jibe at Wenger's side, saying possession football should never be held in such high regard, as it is only goals which truly count.
The Portuguese said: 'I ask myself if in the future, when I am a grandad and I am at home with my grandsons, and maybe the future of football is a beautiful green grass carpet without goals.
'And in that beautiful grass pitch the team with more ball possession wins the game. Because everybody says "oh, my team plays fantastically well, we had great ball possession". Good. "Oh, we build very well." Good.
'It looks like the goals are not there. Sometimes you speak about "boring" and you consider boring a team that scores as many goals as we do, but you don't consider boring a team that has 70 per cent of the ball possession and cannot win the game. It's quite a big contradiction.
'Football started a few centuries ago and the objective was one, but now it looks like the objective is another one.
'For me, I am very simple in my analysis. Football is about putting the ball in the net of your opponent and stopping your opponent.'
Arsenal fans sang 'Boring Boring Chelsea' during the Emirates Stadium stalemate on Sunday afternoon
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