LONDON -- Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has insisted that touchline scuffles between managers only happen when the distance between the oppositions dugouts is small.
Wenger has been involved in physical confrontations with the likes of Alan Pardew, Martin Jol and Jose Mourinho during his lengthy reign as Gunners boss, while Hull's Steve Bruce and Sunderland's Gus Poyet nearly came to blows during a heated clash at the KC Stadium on Tuesday.
When pressed on how exchanges like that can happen on the touchline, Wenger joked that a wall could be erected to stop incidents occurring but also claimed that managers should be separated.
"These are isolated incidents," he said. "Ideally we want us all to behave in a perfect way and maybe we have to build a wall between the two dugouts.
"The bigger the distance the better it is. In a modern stadium it is much better. At the Emirates we have zero incidents because we are far apart from each other.
"What happens when the dugouts are very close, everyone speaks to the fourth official and it quickly becomes controversial. The incidents can explode a little bit physically. The distance between the two dugouts is a very important part of peace."