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Barry confirmed that he was not bitten.
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Not intending to defend Costa but when a team clearly sets out to wind up a temperamental opponent as mercilessly as Everton did yesterday, it's unethical behaviour by the offenders as well and a miracle that he lasted on the pitch for 85 minutes. No surprise that Gareth Barry volunteered for main duties in this regard, he has one of the worst disciplinary records in Premiership history.
All this nonsense about "biting" is joyfully sensationalised by the media. If any player seriously wanted to injure another by biting you would see pieces of flesh and torrents of blood flowing from their mouths. Neither Luis, nor Costa or Lennon accomplished this (thankfully!). All that could be seen immediately afterwards was a slight reddening of the skin. Yes of course it needs to be eradicated from the game like all foul play but we are not talking about manic psychopaths here. If Costa had launched into a knee-high tackle and broken Barry's leg, I think that would warrant far greater punishment. There would also be not much press if he'd punched him in the face, which was said when Suarez last did it too. It seems it's about what's socially acceptable and punching someone seems more so than biting. Anyway, Barry said he didn't bite him so it's not going any further now.
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Costa is a very unlikable sort, comes across very thuggish, he deserves a significant ban, but if we're expecting any consistency in the application of FA rules we're like to be disappointed. They apply different rules for different clubs and different players.
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I think it's worse when a player intentionally shows disrespect to his OWN fans.Can think of Savo Milosevic completely losing it and having a spitting fit in the Holte End penalty area to show what he thought of the Villa fans, for giving him deserved stick over one of his lazy performances.
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It didn't even look like a bite, it looked more like he was whispering to him.
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I think it's worse when a player intentionally shows disrespect to his OWN fans.Can think of Savo Milosevic completely losing it and having a spitting fit in the Holte End penalty area to show what he thought of the Villa fans, for giving him deserved stick over one of his lazy performances. well it doesn't suprise me as I can remember him, they are quite indisciplined a lot of those Eastern European players, I know there has always been problems with football in them places...
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Good to see Alf Garnett is back!
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I think it's worse when a player intentionally shows disrespect to his OWN fans.Can think of Savo Milosevic completely losing it and having a spitting fit in the Holte End penalty area to show what he thought of the Villa fans, for giving him deserved stick over one of his lazy performances. well it doesn't suprise me as I can remember him, they are quite indisciplined a lot of those Eastern European players, I know there has always been problems with football in them places... Having a lovely French onion soup for lunch.
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Funnily enough, when they caused all that trouble at the England U 21 match a few years back, Milosevic went to the England dressing room afterwards to apologize for the behaviors of his fellow countryman.Must have been embarrassing for him but it was a nice touch.
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It didn't even look like a bite, it looked more like he was whispering to him. Good grief!! I thought you were expunged at the time of the Big Bang...remember that time Dunk had a blowout or something, and half the nation got banned...
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