Defending the D — Mourinho defiant on diving questions

Chelsea 2 Hull City 0

Jose Mourinho, though, is concerned there remains a gap in the Spain striker’s education.

The Chelsea manager’s concern is that Costa appears to be collecting yellow cards with the same ease with which he has been finding the net. And while Steve Bruce, the Hull manager, was understandably the more vociferous of the two managers when it came to assessing the performance of referee Chris Foy after the game, Mourinho had his own gripe about the match official after Costa picked up his seventh booking of the season.