Luis Suárez

[Marina]

Oh the ****ing irony........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2215066/Luis-Suarez-killing-football-says-Michael-Kightly.html

Suarez is killing the beautiful game! Stoke winger Kightly joins queue to hammer Liverpool star

Stoke winger Michael Kightly has accused Luis Suarez of ruining football.

Suarez has been heavily criticised for diving in an attempt to win a penalty in Sunday's 0-0 draw between Liverpool at the Potters at Anfield.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers leapt to the defence of his Uruguayan forward, claiming the vilification of the 25-year-old was wrong and unfair.

But Kightly continued the attack on Suarez by telling The Sentinel: 'When you get a little touch and he is screaming like he has broken his leg you do think "is he hurt?" but nine times out of 10, he's not.

'It is something we are trying to get out of the game. Referees have to try to stamp down on it.

'There is a difference between winning a penalty and just diving.

'Sometimes players know a tackle is coming in and ride it and go down. That's good play, winning a penalty.
'But sometimes, when you just dive with no touch at all, that's not good for the game.'


Who the **** is this no-mark **** anyway? Laughable

A Stoke player accusing someone of "ruining" the game A paradox for the ages!

[cream]

That is just ridiculous, **** off Stoke.

[Assassin]

Michael Kightly is obviously a ******* son of DBF

[Chazza]

Deary me.....

Diving becoming a cancer in football - Fifa's Jim Boyce

Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce says he believes diving in football is becoming a "cancer within the game".

Boyce was reacting after having watched footage of Liverpool's Luis Suarez going to ground in the second half of Sunday's 0-0 draw at Anfield.

"I have seen several incidents and the Suarez incident, and to me it is nothing less than cheating," he said.

"It's becoming a cancer within the game. If it is clear it's simulation, they should be severely punished."

In September, Stoke manager Tony Pulis had called for the Football Association to punish those found guilty of diving with three-match bans and on Sunday Pulis said striker Suarez should be banned for what he deemed to be diving during Sunday's match.

Boyce added that he also thought action was necessary even if the initial incident had been missed by the match officials.

"It can be dealt with retrospectively by disciplinary committees, and it is done so in some associations, and I believe that is the correct thing to do," added the 68-year-old from Northern Ireland.

"It can at times be very, very difficult for referees to judge whether something is a foul or a fair tackle and if players are diving then it makes their job even harder."

An FA spokesman said: "Simulation is not something that the FA currently take retrospective action over but it is an issue that is often reviewed and discussed by the game's stakeholders."

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers defended Suarez following Pulis's accusations.

"At this moment there seems to be one set of rules for Luis and another set for everyone else," he said.

"Diving and simulation is obviously a wider issue in football and one that we all agree has to be eradicated from our game but there were other incidents this weekend that didn't seem to generate the same coverage."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19891034

[Shaggy]

This is a joke. Why now FFS? Why not after Young's diving spree? Or even Welbeck's little binge?

[Neil Young]

Professional football is corrupt. The media is corrupt.

And it's international week - all those hacks with deadlines to make but nothing to write about.

[RichC]

A rhetorical question I presume, the hatchet job done on Suarez is unbelievable it really is.

Just waiting for Fergie to wade in with comments about how it needs to stop

[red g]

This is a joke. Why now FFS? Why not after Young's diving spree? Or even Welbeck's little binge?

I am sure its been drafted up for a while, I am sure every hack, ex pro, and every other gob ****e has had an article waiting for the next blatant Luis Dive,
Let Young, Wellbeck etc whet the public appetite for cheaters and then vilify the foreigner.

[Gibbo]

Oh for ****s sake.

Luis has got himself caught in a ****storm for doing something every single footballer on this planet does.

**** off.

[Boogs]

This is fast becoming this years LFC circus. Luis Suarez seems to be everyones focus yet again and although what he did on Sunday was ignominious, the vilification he receives is totally over the top. All press and media outlets are yet again hanging him out to dry and I am ****ing sick of it. It appears to me that when Luis Suarez does anything wrong its headline news on breakfast tv the next day, On most of the back pages and every radio phone in. I'm bored of comparisons cases As we are seen as moaners and defending the worst racist, cheating vile human being ever to have played the beautiful game. I really don't think he we be around for much longer and I cannot say I blame him.

[Baracus]

[Mattshark]

This is a joke. Why now FFS? Why not after Young's diving spree? Or even Welbeck's little binge?

Because they are not foreign and the play for the scum. Corruption and xenophobia all together.

[Gibbo]

Wish people would stop calling is disgraceful.

I thought it was pretty funny to be honest. Sergio Busquets rolling around and around and around is much worse to be honest.

[RichC]

Because they are not foreign and the play for the scum. Corruption and xenophobia all together.

[Marina]

What I don't really understand is why no one has come up with the counter-argument (i.e. how ridiculous it is to single out Suarez when many others are guilty of the same things, etc, etc). It seems like a moot point but it just doesn't compute. How is there nothing besides what Rodgers has said in defence of Suarez to rebuke the sanctimonious brouhaha that a bunch of journos and other managers/players/etc have started?