Chelsea Manager Rafael Benitez said Manchester United administrator Sir Alex Ferguson abandoned their handshake afore Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final.
The brace accept had an more abounding accord back the Spaniard's time at Liverpool and the astriction alike afresh at Old Trafford.
Benitez said: "I was cat-and-mouse for him at the beginning, so you should ask him. I accept education. I was ready.
"I apperceive a lot of humans were watching and I knew what to do."
He added: "It's up to him. I was in the way waiting. If you are adventurous enough, ask him."
A growing acrimony amid Ferguson and Benitez, aforetime on affable terms, came to a arch in January 2009 if the afresh Liverpool administrator abundantly claimed the Scot accustomed best analysis from the football authorities.
"Everyone can see that I'm talking about facts," the Liverpool administrator told journalists. "I'm just adage things that everybody can see."
Most recently, Ferguson declared the above Valencia and Inter Milan bang-up as a "lucky manager" afterwards he landed the column at Stamford Bridge.
The brace afresh bootless to agitate easily at the final blare on Sunday afterwards Chelsea staged a active improvement from 2-0 down, goals from acting Eden Hazard and Ramires in the additional bisected ambience up a epitomize at Stamford Bridge for the appropriate to face Manchester City in the semi-final.
Early strikes from Javier Hernandez and the recalled Wayne Rooney had put United in command.
Benitez explained: "I was with my players, celebrating."
It is not the aboriginal altercation surrounding Ferguson and a handshake. In February 2012, if Luis Suarez banned to agitate Patrice Evra's duke afore a match, Ferguson said: "I couldn't accept Suarez banned Evra's handshake. You saw the adjudicator [Phil Dowd]. He didn't apperceive what to do. It was a abhorrent alpha to the bold and it created a abhorrent atmosphere.
"Suarez is a abasement to Liverpool Football Club. He should not be accustomed to play for Liverpool again. He could accept acquired a riot."
Chelsea concluded the bold in the advantage and Benitez said: "We accept analysed the bold and we adapted to win.
"We had some acceptable counter-attacks even if we were two goals down in the aboriginal bisected and in the additional bisected we were on top of them with some acceptable football, abundant aggregation spirit and alive harder with affection and commitment."
Benitez afflicted the advance of the bold just afterwards the breach if he replaced Frank Lampard and Victor Moses with Hazard and Jon Mikel Obi.
He said: "I am a professional. We had been to Romania in the Europa League on Thursday and I knew we had players who would be annoyed and we had to administer the squad.
"We started with beginning legs but knew we would accept to accomplish substitutions and Hazard is a amateur with superior who can change [a game]."
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