Jase

Diego Costa should be celebrated, not demonised, for his brand of football The article is much more interesting than the headline suggests.

"...charged with alleged violent conduct..." ALLEGED?

People talk about this all time but the FA has hardly given a crap about it. Only punish the player(s) involved if they want to. There's no consistency in what they do.

It's a contact sport but people are crying out over a minor tussle that wasn't even violent. The only dangerous thing he did, if you want to argue, was swinging the arm out on Koscielny. Otherwise, there wasn't much in it and certainly not when others have committed much worse offences.

It's the FA. What do you expect? Will always jump at the chance to punish us.

Even good ol' Redknapp is talking sense... http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/606743/Harry-Redknapp-Diego-Costa-Gabriel-Chelsea-Arsenal

Assuming Bayern Munich would even sell him in the first place.

Considering Azpi played in the Champions League this past midweek and Ivanovic didn't, think Mourinho will rest the former this time and play the latter.

And they play Sunderland at Old Trafford next weekend...

United are only 2 points behind Man City...

Don't want to get my hopes up or anything but an 8-point deficit after 6 games is nothing. City will drop points and let's not forget that they managed to catch up with us despite being 8 points behind last November. Still a long way to go.

Cech's goalkeeping was dodgy for the Zouma goal yesterday...

Do think they will drop points. They aren't that consistent to go on a long winning run (I know Arsenal did it last season but that was when the pressure was off them) and just heads up - Arsenal and United play each other in two weeks' time.

Bilic has always been a tactically decent manager. Has proved it during his time with Croatia, Besiktas etc.

It's only a minor annoyance but this.

Had that turned out to be the case, the situation would have panned out differently altogether and Zouma may still win the battle in the end. Anyway, doubt Walcott did much wrong in that situation. Given that he's quick, he would have fancied himself to outrun our backline especially when we were high up the field at that point of time. Zouma did what he needed to and he did it brilliantly, showing great recovery and composure to win the ball back.

Those cat responses are getting old...

Nah. Going the way Walcott did was the only one he could and other attackers couldn't have done much else either.

I know but I just dislike the number on our left in the league table right now. It's 'ugly'!

I know we have gained extra 3 points today but we started the weekend in 16th and could still end it in 16th. It feels a tad depressing in some ways.

Walsall in decent form so far this season - 7 wins in last 10 matches (overall - P11 W7 D2 L2)

That is true. I was surprised when Mourinho chose to bring Remy on but maybe due to Falcao's recent injury, he didn't want to risk playing him, not even for 8 minutes. Remy should start in midweek though, be it as the striker or on the wing.

He came on for the last 8 minutes today and there wasn't much he could do considering we were more interesting in keeping possession than scoring the second. To be fair, will wait a few more games before passing judgment on that. No doubt Remy deserves more game time than he has been but he may have gotten them only because Falcao got injured recently and JM didn't have much choice.

And we're second on the list. Man City v West Ham first.

No shit sherlock!