article_snippet: Carlo Ancelotti's dealt with the issue last week in a press conference, arching Carlo Ancelotti's trademark left eyebrow into his trademark most quizzical state of scepticism. '
article_snippet: Carlo Ancelotti's characteristically raises Carlo Ancelotti's eyebrow during a press conference on Monday .
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article_snippet: Ancelotti final year at Chelsea was also undermined by whispers that Ancelotti was too friendly with the players, that Ancelotti wasn't tough enough on the players, that the training was too soft.
article_snippet: The fact that John Terry, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole loved Ancelotti – John Terry, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole took Frank Lampard to the pub on the last day of the season in 2011 when Ancelotti had found out Frank Lampard had been sacked – probably didn't help, given that those three players were not in the good books of the board at the time.
article_snippet: Both had tired of the antics and histrionics of Jose Mourinho and eventually settled on Ancelotti as the polar opposite.
article_snippet: Where Jose Mourinho attacks at full throttle, Ancelotti can make Ancelotti point with a mere raising of those expressive eyebrows; where Jose Mourinho sees conspiracies, Ancelotti simply smiles enigmatically; and while Jose Mourinho appears to value a state of perpetual conflict, Ancelotti prefers to be a peacemaker.
article_snippet: But while Ancelotti is seen as the antidote to Jose Mourinho, when things go wrong, what were once seen as strengths are suddenly picked on as weakness: Ancelotti is too conciliatory, too consensual, too caring.
article_snippet: When Juventus fans compared Ancelotti to a pig, Ancelotti objected on the grounds that a pig was insulting to pigs.
article_snippet: After all, Ancelotti had grown up on a pig farm and food is the other great passion of Ancelotti life.
article_snippet: Ancelotti once took David Beckham on a 100-mile round trip to Parma to ensure Ancelotti tried a favourite restaurant.
article_snippet: Jose Mourinho and Ancelotti's feud was defused by the Italian in a matter of seconds .
article_snippet: Ancelotti once took David Beckham on a 100-mile drive to show Ancelotti a favourite restaurant .
article_snippet: Ancelotti playful humour is often lost in translation.
article_snippet: But Ancelotti is the man who once took up an entire team meeting at AC Milan to organise a practical joke on Mathieu Flamini, the punch line of which was unprintable and adolescent in its obscenity and yet funny nonetheless.
article_snippet: When Ancelotti and Mourinho were trading barbs, when Ancelotti was at AC Milan and Chelsea and Mourinho was at Inter, the Italian eventually wearied of the whole charade.
article_snippet: When Chelsea and Inter met in the Champions League that year Ancelotti deliberately sort out Mourinho in the tunnel beforehand to shake hands and agree a truce. '