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Just what Diego Costa needed: a guide to the traditions of the Premier League

Perfect your celebration, don’t sweat the League Cup, and learn to spit properly

Tim Howard confronts Diego Costa Photo: Getty 
issue 06 September 2014

That excitable but likeable hombre, Everton manager Roberto Martinez, took it upon himself to give a stern lecture to the Brazilian-born Spaniard Diego Costa after Chelsea’s sensational 6-3 victory at Goodison at the weekend. Costa, who operates on the field with the speed and directness of the bullet train and will bring Chelsea the Premier League title, I guarantee it, had indulged in a spot of mild gloating after the Everton defender Séamus Coleman, who otherwise had a fine match, had plonked the ball into his own net.

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Roger Alton
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Roger Alton is a former editor of the Observer and the Independent. He writes the Spectator Sport column.

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