Costa could easily be off. Words that would fit into any match report for his games. Now Gabriel falls for his bullshit and he is off. Very, very silly.
Costa described as looking like the villain from a spaghetti western. I'm guessing that it would be The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, as he's often all three in a game.
9 men! At least we all know what Wenger's post-match interview is going to be about. Probably wasn't much doubt anyway, to be fair.
What an embarrassment for Arsenal! Losing to Chelsea! This will add fuel to the "Wenger-out!" campaign, for sure!
I revel in a good Arsenal spanking at the best of times but couldn't enjoy that. And while everyone debates his involvement in the first sending off, a very important point will be missed.... Costa is fcking 5hit.
Spurs will probably beat us mid-week too, and yet STILL the deluded Wengerites will be like, he knows best bla bla. They will come up with another excuse, oh it was only the cup.
I've held the same view on Mike Dean for years. I genuinely think he has the skills to be a good referee. OK he makes mistakes like missing Costa's slap on Koscielny but that will ultimately be dealt with by the FA but his major problem is that he's always looking for the headline making moment. He could have calmly dealt with the Costa v Gabriel tussle and allowed what was a good game of football to continue. Instead he helped inflame the situation, booking Gabriel for no reason and ultimately allowing Costa, who is a master of the footballing dark arts, to wind the dumb Gooner up enough to get a straight red. Important win for Chelsea, title destroying defeat for Arsenal, all the same flaws are still entrenched in Wenger's team and Feelossofee. Jose was as vulgar in defeat as ever. Calling Costa MOTM just proves once again that he's a vile **** who has no genuine interest in football as a game, just "winning". He's football's answer to Charlie Sheen!
Some of the biggest bastards have made the best clowns, Stan. Tony Hancock, Sid James, Jimmy Krankie. Charlie Sheen was no different.
Having suffered five minutes of Sheen's next series, Anger Management, it's safe to say that he's 100% reliant on good script writers!
Well that was some shenanigans yesterday Poor discipline by Gabriel though I gotta say, if the ref will not do anything about COsta spacking people in the face, scraping necks and knocking people to the ground a player is eventually gonna take the law into his own hands. Mike Dean is a piss poor ref. He belongs in League One. He ruined the game, had he booked Costa for the first offence where he had his forearm across the defenders neck and face, he didn't so Costa continued, then put both hands on the defender's face. Then the back swing in the face. That's a yellow a red and another red earned right there. Neck scratch, another red. Chest bump another red. Slap on the chest another yellow\red. He could have got another yellow later in the match too. And Dean sends off an Arsenal player. Was looking forward to this game and Dean ruined it in 4 minutes. Costa is Costa and if the ref did his job he'd have cut out Costa's **** at the first instance of it with a yellow.
Funny how someone as cynical and anti-awesome as you, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of American sit com. You and HIAG obviously share similar tastes. Paella, football, US sit coms, hilarious avatar, European traveller. They don't call you Cosmo for nothing. And it turns out you are a polymath too