The Premier League is becoming like the X Factor of football in that the backstory is more important than the actual game, it is now all about who is shaking who's hand or who won on transfer deadline day. The Costa story will keep the guys on Talk Sport going for days if not weeks with the opportunity for presenters to take separate sides. I wonder if the people who organise the Premier League prefer it this way as this keeps the game on the back pages and the majority of fans seem to go along with it. Look at the weekend we had the start of the Rugby World Cup and GB qualifying for the Davis Cup Final for the first time in 40 years or so and all we are talking about is Diego bloody Costa.
Maybe one-day people will get sick of it all but with the TV billions still pouring in, it probably won't be soon......
Maybe one-day people will get sick of it all but with the TV billions still pouring in, it probably won't be soon......