Alan Shearer leading the calls for the longest possible ban. Heâs the same guy who threatened to retire from international football if the FA banned him for this.
What a natural heel. He is just brilliant.
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[INDENT]A two year ban is maximum allowed. Hence âexpertsâ mentioning it as if they have some insight. Biting seems regarded as less socially acceptable than breaking somebodyâs skull or leg and ending their career but what has more consequences. Ban can only be international games going by FIFA rules. Bans shouldnât be determined by the faux outrage of tabloid journalists from UK. Suarez in my view is lucky this happened under FIFA and not FA jurisdiction who do seem to impose bans based on tabloid reaction.
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I donât think they can only ban him for international games. They can certainly ask UEFA or whoever to comply - when Cantona was banned (albeit by the FA) the ban was imposed worldwide.
There is no way heâll be banned for anything close to two years but his previous form does need to be taken into account in handing out a suspension. Biting is far less socially acceptable than nearly every other type of assault. Thatâs not exclusive to soccer.
Because of the outrage and the publicity this has already brought, FIFA wonât want to show any leniency but wonât be helped by the lack of conclusive evidence and the possibility of an appeal to CAS and all that sort of thing. They will probably put pressure on the Uruguayan FA to impose their own ban and that way FIFA can just uphold that but that isnât going to happen.
Theyâre saying 24 games and the Uruguay FA has until 9pm BST tonight to present any defence of Suarez.
He really has become the John Leahy of association football.
Tyson, Einstein, Suarez- All biters, and geniusâ-
A Merson moment and a breakdown in front of the camera will blow all this away- The man needs help, not to be hounded out of the game.
Encouraging to see how the Liverpool intellegentsia on the board here have rallied round in support of Luis, our misunderstood genius.
Absolutely, but its an easy choice because either you believe luis is a hunted genius or youre a funboy who believes biting is a far greater issue in football than corruption, drugs, elbows and diving and cheating
While you canât defend the bite, that doesnât mean we canât support the man.
make him wear a cooper⌠the fucking animal.
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Every incident involving Luis will only strengthen our support for him.
Like with Maradona, Luis is hated by people who cannot appreciate passion, excitement, joy, commonality of spirit with his people, glorious artistic expression, complexity, tortured genius. He is hated by the soulless, he is supported by those who appreciate the qualities I listed in my previous sentence.
Much of this hatred is driven by pure jealousy that they donât get to follow a player who is the biggest box office star in football since the other great little man from the other side of the River Plate who exhibited so many of the same characteristics.
[QUOTE=âThe Scouse Cafu, post: 970331, member: 2660â]Every incident involving Luis will only strengthen our support for him.
Like with Maradona, Luis is hated by people who cannot appreciate passion, excitement, joy, commonality of spirit with his people, glorious artistic expression, complexity, tortured genius. He is hated by the soulless, he is supported by those who appreciate the qualities I listed in my previous sentence.
Much of this hatred is driven by pure jealousy that they donât get to follow a player who is the biggest box office star in football since the other great little man from the other side of the River Plate who exhibited so many of the same characteristics.[/QUOTE]
Maradonna, Never dived. ever. got lumps kicked out of him every time he ran onto a football pitch. Won a world cup almost single handedly. Never bit anyone. Cheated with a handball against England (which is to be commended)
Suarez. Dives like Tom Daley at the slightest touch, rolls around the ground like a little bitch constantly. Bites lads. Handled a ball off the line (only comparison). Never won fuck all.
[QUOTE=âThe Scouse Cafu, post: 970331, member: 2660â]Every incident involving Luis will only strengthen our support for him.
Like with Maradona, Luis is hated by people who cannot appreciate passion, excitement, joy, commonality of spirit with his people, glorious artistic expression, complexity, tortured genius. He is hated by the soulless, he is supported by those who appreciate the qualities I listed in my previous sentence.
Much of this hatred is driven by pure jealousy that they donât get to follow a player who is the biggest box office star in football since the other great little man from the other side of the River Plate who exhibited so many of the same characteristics.[/QUOTE]
Neither fit the Anglophile profile of honourâ They would rather see a player run himself cluelessly into the ground with âhonourâ and loose than show emotion on the pitch- itâs just not cricket. Itâs just more xenophobia here from the English press who are leading the hounding.
I think heâs made a meal of this.
Donât bite off more than you can chew.
Dunphy put it in perspective this morning, he said you have fellas in soccer breaking lads legs and international rugby players trying to gouge out their opponents eye balls and that if he was giving the choice of having his leg broken or getting bitten heâd take the bite every time.
There are none so blind as those who cannot see.
Exactly, the English way is to be nice guys and win fuck all. Winning is all about having the edge and making things happen. Chrissy Waddle made exactly this point on 5live last night.