4 greatest club rivalries in the Premier League in the last 20 years

#3 Manchester United vs Chelsea

Chelsea replaced Arsenal as Manchester United's main rivals in the mid-2000s

Jose Mourinho won the Champions League with FC Porto in 2004 and was subsequently appointed as the Chelsea manager. He also signed a number of players like Ricardo Carvalho, Didier Drogba, Paulo Ferreira and Michael Essien to build a strong team at Chelsea. Together, they won successive league titles in 2004-05 and 2005-06 and also beat Ferguson’s Manchester United on quite a few occasions.

Chelsea replaced Arsenal as United’s main rival in the mid-2000s and emerged as a big club in English as well as world football. However, United came back strongly to win 4 successive league titles from 2006-07 to 2010-11.

The Red Devils were now bolstered by the arrival of young and exciting players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov, and started ruling English football again. They also won the won the UEFA Champions League in 2008. Meanwhile, Mourinho left Chelsea for Inter Milan in 2008.