Jose Mourinho has insisted that it will not be the “end of the world” if Manchester City clinch the Premier League title against Manchester United this weekend.
He said he is not worried about the prospect of watching City’s celebrations.
“I won the title at Chelsea against Manchester United,” Mourinho told a news conference on Friday.
“We beat United 3-0 and we won the title at Stamford Bridge in 2005-06. But it was not the end of the world, Manchester United didn’t finish. It was just football.
“The only thing I can say is that we want to win, we don’t want to offer them the game.
“It is normal that you want to delay the champions becoming champions. We would like to beat them, we would like Spurs to beat them next week, we would like them to be champions as late as possible.
“That is normal in football but in this case obviously they are going to be champions because there is a very significant difference.”
City need 12 points from their remaining seven games to break Chelsea’s record of 95 points when they won the title in 2005.
United have eight more points than they had at the same stage last season and have already scored more goals than they managed in the previous campaign.
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