Arsene Wenger apologizes for pushing Jose Mourinho during Arsenal's 2-0 defeat at Chelsea

Arsene Wenger (L) has apologised for making physical contact with Jose Mourinho

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has apologised for pushing Jose Mourinho during Chelsea’s 2-0 victory over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.

Goals from Eden Hazard and Diego Costa gave the Blues the win on the day to remain the only undefeated team in the Premier League.

Wenger had pushed Mourinho after a rash tackle from Chelsea’s Gary Cahill floored Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez by the touchline.

Regret any signs of violence: Wenger

The Frenchman, talking to French television show Téléfoot, said: “They gave too much importance to this story.

“In hindsight, I think I should not have reacted at all, it’s not a way to behave on a football field.

“I always regret any signs of violence and I apologise, but that’s a part of games where everything is manic. And then we have quite a substantial past.

Mourinho provoked me: Wenger

But Wenger insisted that it was the Chelsea manager who provoked him.

“Did Mourinho provoke me? That is how I felt. I did not enter Chelsea’s technical area.”

Meanwhile, Mourinho said of the incident: “I have no words to explain what everybody saw in those images.”

Ever since the Portuguese manager’s arrival in England in 2004, both he and Wenger haven’t been on the best of terms. Mourinho even claimed last season that Wenger was ‘a specialist in failure’.