Wenger was incensed by Costa’s role in the red card for Gabriel Paulista that played a significant part in Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat at Stamford Bridgeand expressed astonishment that the Spain international had never been sent off in the Premier League. “He can do what he wants and he stays on,” the Arsenal manager said. “Everyone else that responds to him has to be sent off. It’s unacceptable. But he always gets away with it. He will do the same again next week, and the week after, and he always gets away with it.”
Wenger said the FA should get involved because it was “the least they could do” but that prompted an equally strident response from Mourinho, depicting Arsenal’s manager as a bad loser and snapping when it was put to him that Costa was stretching the rules as far as they could possibly be taken. “Which rules?” Mourinho replied. “Your rules?”
Mourinho rounded on a reporter who brought up Costa’s indiscretions: “I can guess when you were a kid you were playing badminton” – and backed Costa’s aggressive approach. “He played like he has to play and that is why you have full stadiums and you sell football to television around the world for millions and millions. Because the game has to be played like that, OK? Man of the match, for me.”
Gabriel had reacted to Costa’s provocation by flicking out a boot and, though Wenger described it as “very little”, the Arsenal manager admitted his player had been “guilty for getting involved and should not have responded at all”. Santi Cazorla was also shown a red card, for two bookable offences, but the turning point was Gabriel’s dismissal and Wenger was indignant about the way Costa had incited the argument.
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