London — Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte renew hostilities with the stakes heightened when Manchester United and Chelsea face off in Saturday’s FA Cup final needing silverware to mask this season’s flaws. Conte’s need is the greater. Having missed out on Champions League football for next season, many expect the Wembley showpiece to be the Italian’s final match in charge at Stamford Bridge. If it is, nothing will give Conte more joy than bowing out by winning a cup competition for the first time as a coach by beating the man with whom he has clashed most regularly and bitterly since arriving in England. Conte labelled Mourinho a "little man" and "fake" at the peak of their spat in December. Days earlier, Mourinho appeared to allude to a suspension given to Conte for allegedly failing to report match-fixing when coaching at Siena. Conte won an appeal, clearing him of any wrongdoing in the case. The root of their feud comes from Conte’s success in his first campaign at Chelsea, a seas...
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