Chelsea forward was back to somewhere near his best with his well-taken goal and inducing Per Mertesacker’s red cardLike the little girl in the poem – who like the terrible Diego also has a little curl across her brow – Diego Costa has his own deliciously toxic edge. When he’s bad he’s splendid. But when he’s horrid,well, he’s even better.
As Costa left the pitch with 20 minutes to go at the Emirates Stadium he achieved the scarce feat of bringing pretty much the entire crowd inside this enormous steel and glass bowl to its feet in a single cause, and mainly the offering of fruitless howls of displeasure in his direction. In a moment of genuine comedic flair Costa even had time to pause,glance around at the white noise of pantomime hatred and offer a polite round of applause.
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Source: theguardian.com