Diego Costa was unaware of new Premier League rules before Chelsea v West Ham.
One of the least surprising moments in Chelsea’s 2-1 win over West Ham was the fact that Diego Costa was booked for complaining to referee Anthony Taylor after just 19 minutes.
Costa would eventually score an 89th minute winner for Chelsea and was lucky to stay on the pitch with a pretty disgraceful challenge on West Ham keeper Adrian in the second half that did not see Taylor flash another yellow card.
But one of the more surprising aspects of the booking is that Costa did not know about the new Premier League rules, announced at the end of July.
These concern “dissent towards match officials”, which mean yellow cards will be issued to players who:
– Show visibly disrespectful behaviour to any match official
– Respond aggressively to decisions
– Confront an official face to face
– Run towards an official to contest a decision
Why did Chelsea not tell Costa about the new rules?
You would have imagined that Chelsea would have told Costa about these new rules and that they would have been drummed into him ahead of the big kick-off.
Perhaps Chelsea failed to do so as they expected the Brazilian-born Spanish striker to leave the club this summer?
See video of Diego Costa discussing his booking with ESPN Brasil below…
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