It's amazing how almost every knowledgeable pundit/football expert has come out and said it's harsh to ban him, yet the F.A and oppo fans think he should be banned. I know who I'd rather pay more notice to, but obviously the F.A are having a slow month and someone needs to be made the scapegoat once again.

Independent are reporting the tweets as well

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/diego-costa-thierry-henry-paul-scholes-gary-neville-and-gary-lineker-say-controversial-chelsea-striker-should-not-be-banned-10012865.html

as are ITV

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-01-30/former-liverpool-striker-stan-collymore-in-twitter-row-with-gary-neville-over-diego-costa-stamp/

as did Sky Sports News

but apart from that, what did the Romans.....

I just went on the indepedent website on my phone and I cant find that article.

Can you actually find a newspaper that people read ?

 

People do read the independent Davey, even if you don't.

 

I think the media's reaction today and yesterday have proved you wrong haha. Apparently Sky and ITV aren't mainstream now.

Edited January 30, 201511 yr by RichardCFC

I just went on the indepedent website on my phone and I cant find that article.

 

 

It is there. The headline is 

Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Gary Lineker say controversial Chelsea striker should not be banned 

 

and it has all their tweets.

Newspaper are written by individuals. Individuals have different opinions and that's the beauty of a free press. 

 

And not one individual chose to write a word against Giggs getting the captaincy of Team GB, whereas we all know they would have had a field day with Ashley Cole, let alone John Terry.

 

Rooney got the England captaincy and there hasn't been one dissenting voice in the press. He smokes, he drinks he eats burgers and he lives in a caravan. He shags hookers, cavorts with hookers in public while his wife is pregnant. He spends more time in Harley Street getting procedures than he does on the training ground. He elbows people, he kicks people, he swears in front of cameras, he's let England down on several occasions.

 

In the build up to Ashley Cole's 100th cap, reams and reams were written on why he shouldn't be given the armband, for a single game.

 

How can you possibly say there's no agenda?

 

If it's one rule for one club and another for another, which it clearly is, that's an agenda.

 

It's all very well saying every supporter thinks their club is persecuted. Yeah and every person in the country complains about money. That doesn't make them all poor. It's all relative. Nobody wants to see their club get slagged in the media, of course they don't, and of course they're going to complain. I've met many parents who complain about their kids being bullied, and yet I've never met the parent of a bully, funnily enough. They don't exist, so they'll have you believe. It's a skewed argument.

 

Some supporters may feel they get a worse deal than Chelsea off the press, that don't make them right, that makes them deluded.

People do read the independent Davey, even if you don't.

 

The Independent's readership consists of two senile old duffers in Canterbury, and that's a fact.

 

Sure, the ITN website may be covering the row with Collymore, I'll concede that, but what about the paper that ran with the headline, immediately following the game, "Redknapp and Henry say Costa should have gone".

 

I'm talking about a paper that people actually read.

 

If there were no agenda, surely, in the interests of balance and fair play, they'd like to report that other pundits feel differently?

 

Strangely enough they've been silent. Those tweets don't fit in with their "narrative", so guess what, they ain't telling the story, and there you have it.

This thread is getting boring now. The same ground is being covered over and over again. It's quite clear that there are people on both sides of the fence who have made an argument and are not going to change their minds - so why continue writing the same stuff I read yesterday ?

It is there. The headline is Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Gary Lineker say controversial Chelsea striker should not be banned

and it has all their tweets.

Oh I know its there, but I had to find it from google, as its buried, at least on the phone that is, havent checked desktop.

Edited January 30, 201511 yr by Zola

The Independent's readership consists of two senile old duffers in Canterbury, and that's a fact.

 

Sure, the ITN website may be covering the row with Collymore, I'll concede that, but what about the paper that ran with the headline, immediately following the game, "Redknapp and Henry say Costa should have gone".

 

I'm talking about a paper that people actually read.

 

If there were no agenda, surely, in the interests of balance and fair play, they'd like to report that other pundits feel differently?

 

Strangely enough they've been silent. Those tweets don't fit in with their "narrative", so guess what, they ain't telling the story, and there you have it.

 

Because, as the post match pundits, they were the only ones who had commented on it. Lineker and Neville's tweets came after and have since been covered. 

 

This thread is getting boring now. The same ground is being covered over and over again. It's quite clear that there are people on both sides of the fence who have made an argument and are not going to change their minds - so why continue writing the same stuff I read yesterday ?

 

Pretty much. Despite numerous media outlets reporting Chelsea's side of the story its still them against us.

Edited January 30, 201511 yr by RichardCFC

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2932734/Diego-Costa-extreme-provocation-against-Liverpool-admired-patience-claims-Paul-Scholes.html

 

Here you are Davey. The second most read paper in the UK with an article specifically defending Diego Costa.

 

Please stop now, you're embarrassing yourself with your conspiracy theories.

Thanks for The Mail link, usually hate it, but it's gone up in my estimation (only slightly).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2932734/Diego-Costa-extreme-provocation-against-Liverpool-admired-patience-claims-Paul-Scholes.html

 

Here you are Davey. The second most read paper in the UK with an article specifically defending Diego Costa.

 

Please stop now, you're embarrassing yourself with your conspiracy theories.

 

 

 

Costa appears to stamp on Can's right leg during a feisty Capital One Cup semi-final second leg

 

 

 

 

Jose Mourinho watches on as his striker stands on Can early in the first half at Stamford Bridge

 

 

Make your mind up DM.

The Mail are merely copying an article that Scholes made for the Independent, just a horribly lazt and pathetic paper.

Mourinho after Yaya kicked Ricky Van Wolfswinkel, prior to the FA hearing, worth a listen.

 

Oh and Yaya got off ..

 

The Mail are merely copying an article that Scholes made for the Independent, just a horribly lazt and pathetic paper.

 

Yeah, they are, but if they had an agenda against us, they certainly wouldn't do that.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2932734/Diego-Costa-extreme-provocation-against-Liverpool-admired-patience-claims-Paul-Scholes.html

 

Here you are Davey. The second most read paper in the UK with an article specifically defending Diego Costa.

 

Please stop now, you're embarrassing yourself with your conspiracy theories.

 

They're not defending Diego Costa, their reporting on Paul Scholes' opinion, but fair enough, at least it offers a teensy weensy bit of balance, but the Neville tweets the Lineker tweets and the Henry tweets have gone unnoticed by the eagle eyes at the Mail, who ran with the headline I referred to.

 

Either way they know their work is done. The charge has come, and it was wholly driven by the media, as there is no justifiable basis for it at all.

 

I maintain, any other club and it would have been a whole lot different. Roles reversed and the story would have all been about Oliver.

 

Has there been a campaign to get him demoted from this week's action?

He'll escape a ban and then get sent off inside the first 10 minutes tomorrow.

Confirmed now banned for three matches

Breaking News on Sky Sports News

Edited January 30, 201511 yr by Bobbywoodhogan

Surprised.

Was always gonna happen

Absolute disgrace, but it's now set a precedent.

Absolute disgrace, but it's now set a precedent.

I don't think it has. I'm sure something similar will go unpunished between now and the end of the season.

Tw*ts.

Meanwhile Michael Oliver will referee Southampton v Swansea on Sunday.

Interesting to see if the same applies to other players going forward, let's hope this gives the team a huge incentive to go out there tomorrow and smash them just to show we can do it anyway!