All Spurs’ outfield players bar one were booked with Mousa Dembélé appearing to try to gouge one of Diego Costas eyesWell,you can’t say they didn’t proceed down fighting. It took until the final half-hour for Tottenham Hotspur’s title challenge finally, definitively to unravel but from the seventh minute, or when Mousa Dembélé initiated a snarling squabble with Mikel John Obi,to the seventh minute of stoppage time, when the final whistle blew and players and managers brawled on their way down the tunnel, or this was a display full more of malice than of merit.
In this astonishing season,now embellished with its 5000-1 champions, how Dembélé made it all the way to stoppage time before he was booked might be the greatest miracle of all. In the dying moments of the first half, and after Danny Rose slid in late on Willian in front of the Spurs dug-out,players and coaches from both sides came together in a mêlée that distracted the officials sufficiently for the Belgian to push his nails into one of Diego Costa’s eyes and down his face and emerge unnoticed and unpunished. Costa is used to winning trophies and being unpleasantly aggressive to others; here it was he who was bullied, and then he helped present a trophy to someone else.
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Source: theguardian.com