Chelsea 6-0 Arsenal: Gunners hit for SIX by rampant Blues on Wenger's 1,000th game as Gibbs is mistakenly sent off after Oxlade-Chamberlain's handball on the line

‘Jose Mourinho’ they chanted around Stamford Bridge and the sub text was clear. What they meant to say was: ‘Arsene Wenger, your time has gone.’

Then came the cruellest cut, as the Chelsea fans echoed their manager’s own brutal words: ‘Specialist in failure.’

Mourinho is of course the last guest you want to invite to a party. It was inevitable that he would upset the guests and spoils the celebrations. He did so, but in the best way imaginable: on the pitch, with his team’s performance.

For Mourinho has always bridled at the admiration that English football has shown Wenger, you suspect because he considers himself tactically superior. 

On Saturday, as the occasion of the 1000thgame for Wenger turned out to be the Arsenal’s manager’s worst, he will feel as though he demonstrated that conclusively.