Wait... he plead guilty to the charge and they still increased the ban? Are they just making procedure up as they go along now?

Oh well , as long as we start traore I don't really mind ..... Please don't loose to villa :(

f**k this soulless bullsh*t the FA is intent on pushing. Are there no ex-pros among them who realise tempers run high during highly competitive games? Virtually every single red card doled out sees the receiving team lose their minds and futilely protest but end of the day everyone shakes hands and goes away with everything left on the pitch. Costa does overstep the mark too much and has deserved punishment in the past but its just so needless to punish a player's passion. It happens at every level from professional to amateur and will never ever go away, so I don't see why it needs to be taken further when no-one was remotely harmed or heaven forbid offended!!! and was dealt with at the time. 

Its only clever play if you don't get caught. His card is marked, he'll be more punished than everyone else is for the slightest of misdemeanors.

Also, the FA are such corrupted bar stewards.

That £20,000 and the millions they take off everyone else just goes straight in their dirty pockets. They never once state where the money goes, manager like Pulis has talked about it on a few occasions. I think its very clear what they do with it and its not for the good of the game.

Edited April 1, 201610 yr by Zola

Exactly, i'm convinced now, they deliberately target certain people, Jose, Costa etc...they know they are controversial figures, so they go after them to make some easy money, but according to pundits these conspiracies are ridiculous, I wish they'd open their eyes. Guus said a week or two ago, he thinks that if the FA can't fine Diego for one incident, then they'll assess other footage in an attempt to do him for something else, the corruption isn't far off the level of FIFA, where do they get these figures from as well? Remember when Cole was fined £90,000 for calling them a bunch of tw*ts, obviously steep because they were offended by it, but call someone else a tw*t and they'd make up another lazy figure.

Edited April 1, 201610 yr by Floyd25

Why did it take the F.A so long to charge him ? It was almost a month ago.

Must be getting sick of the treatment compared to others, wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking about going back to Spain.

Must be getting sick of the treatment compared to others, wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking about going back to Spain.

Can't blame him can you? I'm sure to him it seems the league is out to get him, the FA, referees, opposing managers and players....

FIFA = corrupt to the core, proven by events over the last 24 months, Qatar still using forced/ slave labor to construct WC venues

 

UEFA = same, Platini banned, refs officiating Chelsea games awfully 

 

FA = likely to be a similar organisation, seem to throw the book at CFC the most

 

no conspiracy, actuality

 

Doubt Costa will be sold/ allowed to leave unless silly silly money offered, which AM dont have

f**k the FA.

The fact they waited until the day before the match to tell us shows they areca bunch of vindictive pricks, they have had 2 weeks to sort this.

they have to have their villain and the fact he plays for chelsea makes it all the better. it would not be quite so bad if it was not so blatantly anti Chelsea from the bunch of cnuts 

FIFA = corrupt to the core, proven by events over the last 24 months, Qatar still using forced/ slave labor to construct WC venues

 

UEFA = same, Platini banned, refs officiating Chelsea games awfully 

 

FA = likely to be a similar organisation, seem to throw the book at CFC the most

 

no conspiracy, actuality

 

Doubt Costa will be sold/ allowed to leave unless silly silly money offered, which AM dont have

 

The media thought the same, So now they are linking Costa with PSG.

 

Link: http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2016/diego-costa-offered-to-psg-by-jorge-mendes/

Exactly, i'm convinced now, they deliberately target certain people, Jose, Costa etc...they know they are controversial figures, so they go after them to make some easy money, but according to pundits these conspiracies are ridiculous, I wish they'd open their eyes. Guus said a week or two ago, he thinks that if the FA can't fine Diego for one incident, then they'll assess other footage in an attempt to do him for something else, the corruption isn't far off the level of FIFA, where do they get these figures from as well? Remember when Cole was fined £90,000 for calling them a bunch of tw*ts, obviously steep because they were offended by it, but call someone else a tw*t and they'd make up another lazy figure.

 

The problem is the same across all the footballing authorities, FA, UEFA, FIFA, they are all utterly clueless. Take the recent Liverpool v Man Utd matches for instance, United fans chanting constantly about Hillsborough, and none of it nice, and yet Liverpool are charged with illicit chants!

 

The same thing here with Costa, so easy to compare with Suarez. Both very talented and passionate players and yet both misunderstood by the FA who are bewildered when south americans act so passionate. The FA claim to promote foreign players in one way but when they err the FA wash their hands with them and punish them for not being english!

 

The long and short of it all is this, we have outdated authorities who have no clue of the modern game, and the sooner this is changed across all boards, the better.

Costa might not be nice but you can't compare him to Suarez who bit 2 players and spent half a march racially abusing another.

Costa might not be nice but you can't compare him to Suarez who bit 2 players and spent half a march racially abusing another.

 

f**king hell, was he going to Nazi marches as well???

Wrong thread, Costa is a top bloke though.

Edited April 2, 201610 yr by timetowaste

Costa might not be nice but you can't compare him to Suarez who bit 2 players and spent half a march racially abusing another.

 

What Costa does is just handbags stuff, nobody should be comparing him with Suarez. Suarez is always looking to cheat, he dives, he kicks players and then says he was fouled, he steps on people's achilles and he has bitten 3 players in his career. Suarez wasn't misunderstood at Liverpool, he was just a total prick.

What Costa does is just handbags stuff, nobody should be comparing him with Suarez. Suarez is always looking to cheat, he dives, he kicks players and then says he was fouled, he steps on people's achilles and he has bitten 3 players in his career. Suarez wasn't misunderstood at Liverpool, he was just a total prick.

He wasn't misunderstood at Liverpool

He was misunderstood by Liverpool

The rest of us saw him for the despicable c**t he is

Also, the FA are such corrupted bar stewards.

That £20,000 and the millions they take off everyone else just goes straight in their dirty pockets. They never once state where the money goes, manager like Pulis has talked about it on a few occasions. I think its very clear what they do with it and its not for the good of the game.

Wasn't Pulis fined for asking where the punishment money went?

Not just football, anytime you have an organization with lot of money and power, and little transparency, it's an incubator for corruption and incompetency.

Why did it take the F.A so long to charge him ? It was almost a month ago.

Because they were scouring the videos with a magnifying glass trying to find something to charge him for. Once the biting speculation happened, Costa was a marked man. He was painted as a villain by the media and the public, and the FA felt pressured to charge him for something.

Then it was confirmed by Gareth Barry himself that Costa didn't bite him. Credit to Barry for his honesty. He could easily have had Costa punished heavily.

At this point from a rational perspective people should have asked themselves, "If I had never heard the word bite, would I still think Costa did anything worthy of significant retroactive punishment?" It's hard to argue the affirmative. The idea of Costa biting someone was already planted in their heads, and they couldn't think about the situation without being affected by the accusation.

The media had already written their stories. Members of the public had already ranted to their friends. The FA had already declared their investigation.

Humans have enormous difficulty admitting they were wrong. They have enormous difficulty saying, "I was wrong about how he acted that game. I was wrong to say he was similar to Suarez. I was wrong to suggest that he's a primal animal."

Humans will go to great lengths to twist their interpretation to match their original thoughts and statements.

Since they couldn't use the bite as evidence to support their conclusion about Costa, in order to avoid looking and feeling silly, they wanted a reason to think that their original conclusion about Costa was still correct even if he didn't bite anyone.

I've even seen people say that it doesn't matter that he didn't actually bite Barry; it looked like he was thinking about it, so that proves he's a Suarez-esque prick. WTF?!

With the media and public hungry to see Costa punished, the FA was under pressure to get him for something.

Wasn't Pulis fined for asking where the punishment money went?

Not just football, anytime you have an organization with lot of money and power, and little transparency, it's an incubator for corruption and incompetency.

 

it sure pisses people off.. corruption and power abuse are disgusting.. I often wonder if I'm in that organization, would I do differently? hard to say but with the point where I'm standing right now, the answer is absolute.. 

it sure pisses people off.. corruption and power abuse are disgusting.. I often wonder if I'm in that organization, would I do differently? hard to say but with the point where I'm standing right now, the answer is absolute..

Many times in those organizations, you don't survive and/or get promoted if you're not corrupt, so the question of whether you'd do differently in that position is moot because you'd never get the opportunity to find out.

It's really easy to buy into a culture when you're surrounded by it, even if it is a corrupt one. Over time you subconsciously persuade/reassure yourself that no harm is being done, especially when it's the "well everyone is doing it" mentality. It's all a matter of perspective and I'm sure there are plenty formerly honest people in FIFA who got into it with good intentions, but perspectives become skewed when you're surrounded by one certain perspective, in this case a corrupt one. No experience in FIFA, but I have learned this from my personal experiences at least, being surrounded by a culture/perspective and how much it can change you without even realizing it.