I know it was pretty harmless and there was no danger of causing any real physical harm, but it’s

[Monty91]

quite clear from the video that Costa does barge into that steward.

Put it this way, if the steward had been a ballboy, I don’t think people would be so quick to brush it off.

[Berni]

I can't manufacture any outrage on this one, I'm afraid. No matter how hard I try.

[Classic Jorge]

Obviously didnt see that match this weekend when costa did that sort of thing at least three times as well as, as you say, barging a steward.

[Monty91]

So, like, are you allowed to do this in front of the referee nowadays? Grab someone aggressively around the face, digging your thumb into their cheek?

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[barrybueno]

Or summit else?

[Ashberto]

Nope. Can't find a dog to back in that fight.

[Berni]

His need to generate aggro is almost pathological. Like with Lehmann, who I still maintain was a lunatic.

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

gutted about it afterwards. I can forgive and forget.

[Monty91]

team that every game he becomes embroiled in this kind of **** with at least one opposing player (and often more).

[Classic Jorge]

And thus went to the papers to point out just how awful this was, terrible form from the welsh lad really. Nobody wants to see that sort of thing in the game.

[Berni]

I know some players claim they need that sort of thing to get themselves going, but if anything, Costa's arseholery levels seem to be in inverse proportion to his effectiveness on the pitch.

[Ashberto]

But when the perception is that Arsenal are a bunch of foreign poofters that don't like it up em, so we have to get in their faces, let 'em know we're there, and mix it up a bit, it's not entirely surprising that it ended up with three snapped legs, two of them career-ending.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

If it goes off by mistake and kills someone, would you be blameless?

[Monty91]

He was on a football field. Players sometimes do reckless things, more often than not with limited damege. He almost certainly didn't want to hurt him so badly, so I can forgive him :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

If you went to a shooting range and behave recklessly and killed someone, would you be blameless?

[Monty91]

I do not consider him blameless?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

But we knew that.

[Ashberto]

and forgives his enemies.

Let us all pray together for Ryan's soul.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They're not big on forgiveness, are they? Eye for an eye, and all that? Certainly that lad in a cowboy hat whose drive I blocked in Golders Green wasn't. Quite the aggressive type, he was.

[Pokster]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

And the front.

Anyway, we have Mesut now.

[Classic Jorge]

...."better"

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