Chelsea v Arsenal, 12.45pm k/o

bad2dabone

He was warned four persistent fouling.

Jelle1880

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Love Costa, an absoute warrior and Gabriel was an idiot to react to an obvious provocation. Best battling striker in the premiership

Love this by the way, one of the first rival games in a long long time to actually have a bit of bite to it. Too many powderpuff games in the premiership these days between supposed hated rivals

A warrior who goes down at the slightest contact ?

That's an odd description.

Gbear

Andersonisgod wrote: »

He's a winner, plain and simple. He's a guy whose willing to do things others aren't, who dares go to a place mentally where few others would venture. Here's a guy who drove Atletico to La Liga glory, who drove Chelsea to Premier League glory and all of this from a guy who nobody pegged to be a world class footballer. He got to where he is through hard work and sheer force of personality. I have no problem saying he's my favorite Chelsea player, he's a leader.

And if ref's weren't awful then he'd get banned for half the season every year and either stop or be playing for a mid-table side.

He has the subtlety of a coked up elephant.

Whatever about the in-game, where apparently having 4 officials with **** all to do most of the time isn't enough to have someone keep an eye on him, he miraculously seems to escape his fair share of retrospective punishment as well.

This isn't a hard problem to solve.

Osmosis Jones

He's committed about 6 yellow card offences so far

Jan Laco

tigger123 wrote: »

I love Costa, it's part of his game, defenders should know going into matches how to handle him, ie, don't react.

but it's not part of the game. why should they have to deal. I'd love 2 footed challenges as "part of my game" so should that be allowed..

Sanity_Saviour

Gringo180 wrote: »

You are correct. I dislike Chelsea for everything they stand for. A nothing club until Roman came along.

What exactly does a football club in West London "stand for"? :pac:

It is hilarious how much a person reveals about themselves through pathetic online posts!

ShoulderChip

Jan Laco wrote: »

but it's not part of the game. why should they have to deal. I'd love 2 footed challenges as "part of my game" so should that be allowed..

Your question contradicts itself.

GreNoLi

Costa would be an amazing heel if he was in WWE.

tigger123

Jan Laco wrote: »

but it's not part of the game. why should they have to deal. I'd love 2 footed challenges as "part of my game" so should that be allowed..

I mean the needling at defenders and provoking them.

Gringo180

Lukker- wrote: »

But they weren't though. Would you rather the same teams just keep winning, we could rotate the title between teams who were good 50 years ago.

Fact is 95% of Arsenal fans would love Roman as an owner instead of one who's primary concern is extracting profit.

They'd never admit it though.

Is that why the board wont let Usmanov become the majority shareholder? Chelsea were just a mediocre club going absolutely nowhere until the oil money came along. Is it just a coincidence success came along when the cash started to flow?

Sanity_Saviour

Jelle1880 wrote: »

A warrior who goes down at the slightest contact ?

That's an odd description.

yes


Outstanding player

tigger123

tigger123 wrote: »

I love Costa, it's part of his game, defenders should know going into matches how to handle him, ie, don't react.

In fairness, Kos didn't react when Costa whacked him in the face multiple times, and bunted him to the ground.

Ordinary man

Andersonisgod wrote: »

He's a winner, plain and simple. He's a guy whose willing to do things others aren't, who dares go to a place mentally where few others would venture. Here's a guy who drove Atletico to La Liga glory, who drove Chelsea to Premier League glory and all of this from a guy who nobody pegged to be a world class footballer. He got to where he is through hard work and sheer force of personality. I have no problem saying he's my favorite Chelsea player, he's a leader.

He's a great lad at roughing up defenders until they get rough back, then he wets himself, starts diving and crying to the ref. Some warrior alright

Francie Barrett

Hazard has just went from sublime to utter sh!te this season.

LightningBlue

Get in great header Zouma

Jelle1880

Zouma makes it 1-0.

Kirby

Free header.

J. Marston

Game over. Arsenal gon' Arsenal.

Osmosis Jones

That is useless defending

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Typical

What was Gabriel actually sent off for? Grabbing a player?

Corholio

Poor from Arsenal there, especially when they needed to extra concentrate on defending.

Gringo180

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

What exactly does a football club in West London "stand for"? :pac:

They stand for everything thats wrong about the game.

Panthro

happy days!

Bobby Baccala

The inevitable

Dozen Wicked Words

Gringo180 wrote: »

Is that why the board wont let Usmanov become the majority shareholder? Chelsea were just a mediocre club going absolutely nowhere until the oil money came along. Is it just a coincidence success came along when the cash started to flow?

They won FA Cups, which is the success benchmark for Wenger in recent years.

Kirby

Deleted User wrote: »

What was Gabriel actually sent off for? Grabbing a player?

He kicked out. A beckham-esque backwards swipe. Costa is such an irritating pest. He should get a ban to be honest.

Lukker-

Gringo180 wrote: »

Is that why the board wont let Usmanov become the majority shareholder? Chelsea were just a mediocre club going absolutely nowhere until the oil money came along. Is it just a coincidence success came along when the cash started to flow?

They finished 4th the season before he took over. I love the revionist view of history.

Unlucky

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

What was Gabriel actually sent off for? Grabbing a player?

Second yellow, back heel on Costa. No idea what the first yellow was for.

Corholio

Corholio wrote: »

Poor from Arsenal there, especially when they needed to extra concentrate on defending.

Can't defend when Mertesacker isn't on the pitch. Blindingly obvious and has been for a while now.

Strumms

Corholio wrote: »

What a cop out way of describe him. I actually thought you'd have more sense.

It is. If a player on another team was up to the same craic against Chelsea they'd be the first one shouting the place down. Also if you genuinely like football as a sport not just a blue glasses tinted gimp you wouldn't condone it. You'd call it as it is.

Corholio

Lukker- wrote: »

They finished 4th the season before he took over. I love the revionist view of history.

Unlucky

So 4th is the same as where they are now? It's not that revisionist in fairness, big difference between 1st and 4th, more than ever now.

Sanity_Saviour

ZOUMMAAAA

well deserved, good to have a defender as assured and mature as him, Mourinho shows again why he was more suited to this game than Terry, masterclass(y)

tigger123

Kirby wrote: »

He kicked out. A beckham-esque backwards swipe. Costa is such an irritating pest. He should get a ban to be honest.

Victim blaming.

Kirby

tigger123 wrote: »

Victim blaming.

Costa is anything but a victim. :P

Sanity_Saviour

Gringo180 wrote: »

They stand for everything thats wrong about the game.

hahahah oh you poor thing

What do Chelsea stand for? What are these things thats everything thats wrong about the game?

Do they have them on our website?

Dozen Wicked Words

Kirby wrote: »

He kicked out. A beckham-esque backwards swipe. Costa is such an irritating pest. He should get a ban to be honest.

I think he'll probably get a ban, maybe no bad thing for Chelsea. Not a patch on the player he was last season.

GreNoLi

tigger123 wrote: »

Victim blaming.

Was only a micro-aggression from Gabriel.

Anyone else see lazy lazy useless Ozil just sprint back and take the ball off Pedro?

brianregan09

Basil3 wrote: »

Anyone else see lazy lazy useless Ozil just sprint back and take the ball off Pedro?

Won't see that on Match of the day though its much easier talk about the laziness

blueser

Kirby wrote: »

He kicked out. A beckham-esque backwards swipe. Costa is such an irritating pest. He should get a ban to be honest.

A fantastic player on his day, but a thoroughly unpleasant individual.

JustTheOne

Basil3 wrote: »

Anyone else see lazy lazy useless Ozil just sprint back and take the ball off Pedro?

Maybe he should behave like Costa.

Might get more recognition from fans and media.

theoneeyedman

Andersonisgod wrote: »

He's a winner, plain and simple. He's a guy whose willing to do things others aren't, who dares go to a place mentally where few others would venture. Here's a guy who drove Atletico to La Liga glory, who drove Chelsea to Premier League glory and all of this from a guy who nobody pegged to be a world class footballer. He got to where he is through hard work and sheer force of personality. I have no problem saying he's my favorite Chelsea player, he's a leader.

He's a bully,plain and simple.

A very ordinary player in Damien delaney stood up to him a few weeks ago and he didn't want to know about it, cried and waved his arms like a big girl for the whole game.

Refs have to either punish him,or else let defenders deal with him themselves

Corholio

brianregan09 wrote: »

Won't see that on Match of the day though its much easier talk about the laziness

If he did that a lot no one would ever mention it, 1 or 2 instances isn't really indicative of him doing that to be honest.

Lukker-

Corholio wrote: »

So 4th is the same as where they are now? It's not that revisionist in fairness, big difference between 1st and 4th, more than ever now.

They were consistently top 6 throughout the Pl, with a poisonous chairman. They won cups and went on runs in Europe. They weren't in the absolute upper echelon because they couldn't compete financially but they were always a big draw for foreign talent. They eventually broke the Arsenal United duopoly so it's understandable a few days feathers were ruffled.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Worst match thread ever.

Costa is pure scum on the field whether he plays for your team or not, he is scum.

Corholio

Lukker- wrote: »

They were consistently top 6 throughout the Pl, with a poisonous chairman. They won cups and went on runs in Europe. They weren't in the absolute upper echelon because they couldn't compete financially but they were always a big draw for foreign talent. They eventually broke the Arsenal United duopoly so it's understandable a few fathers were ruffled.

I think that's pretty similar to what the poster said, if they couldn't compete financially then they were going nowhere. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but the money brought them to that upper echelon.

Osmosis Jones

5 different commentators have been used in this match so far.

zombieHanalei

It's funny the sort of scumbaggery people are willing to overlook and even celebrate depending on whether or not that player plays for their club.

Skylinehead

Corholio wrote: »

What a cop out way of describe him. I actually thought you'd have more sense.

You're talking to the most biased man on the forum, I wouldn't expect him to give any ground when it's a Chelsea (or Barca) player at fault.