Tottenham's 2-0 win over Manchester City on Saturday hints that the Premier League might just get to witness a genuine rivalry between Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola after all.
When Mourinho returned to England to manage Manchester United in 2016, the script was written for the Portuguese to renew hostilities with perhaps his bitterest rival -- Arsene Wenger aside -- as Guardiola arrived across town at City in the same summer.
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Although Mourinho hailed finishing second to Guardiola in the 2017-18 campaign as "one of his biggest achievements in the game," that was a comment framed in terms of the weaknesses in United's squad rather than the product of a close-fought contest.