Luis Suárez

[Shaggy]

Legally, morally, or just because a club ban would affect us?

Why should we be punished? It's **** all to do with us.

[elrichio86]

On a more serious note I can see a 2 year international FIFA ban, a season's ban in European club competitions and something like a domestic league 20 match ban.

Based on what? There's no previous example that we can refer to. 2 year ban is the maximum listed in the FIFA regs, but they're very vague (deliberately so).

Any club football ban would be very tricky for FIFA as its not strictly speaking their remit.

[G]

In Fifas statutes assault is 2 games, spitting is 6. He'll get about 8 I reckon. International only. I do wish FIFA would clarify this as it seem pretty clear they can only ban him from their own competitions.

[topscorer]

Unless its drug abuse I'm sure we would have legal grounds to sue if a ban was imposed at club level.

Generally all punishments for on field matters can only apply for that level.

He faces a very long ban from International football but even then it might only apply to World Cup games and not the South American tournament.

[danperkins]

The ultimate irony here is the levels of sanctimony from the tabloid press when Louis is realistically mana from heaven for them. In an ailing industry when Hodgsons England have totally stunk out the tournament the press really could not have asked for a better story to help them sell some papers...

Louis is a PR nightmare for LFC, but he is Box Office for the press.

The biggest losers here are LFC, and us as supporters. We are the ones who try to stick up for him. These actions are indefensible and he surely truly does need some help.

spot on

[Leyton388]

FIFA giving him a domestic ban for an international incident would open a can of worms. No clubs would release their players if there was a threat of domestic bans.

[Philip FC Kopenhagen]

Great post mate.

We won't fire him, but guaranteed FSG will be absolutely fuming. They - along with Rodgers - probably feel let down. Betrayed even. But it is clearly something that is out of Suarez's control and he needs help.

Agreed. This has happened too many times now. And of course the staff including Rodgers feel let down because they've worked so hard with Suarez and before yesterdays game it seemed like he literally had changed his behaviour but obviously not. He needs help. I hope FIFA don't set an example of him and ban him for domestic games as well. Kick him out of the tournament and let him know that this is absolutely frowned upon - and not only in Europe but all over the world.

[captainfog]

Sorry, I don't follow you.

Are you saying I shouldn't care that it happened?

Pretty much, yeah. Wasn't wearing a Liverpool shirt didn't even happen in this country.

The hand wringing and outrage in the the UK is comical

[fah-q]

I care because it was at least partly responsible for us getting knocked out though.

[Fierce]

I couldn't give a **** if he bit him. And I'm struggling to understand why anyone in the UK cares either. Liverpool fan or not. There are many worse things that happen in football matches.

Thats silly. I couldn't give a **** either, but that's because I don't really care about football in general. It's not on the list of things that matter to me

But plenty of people do, and to those people, having your best player BITE ( ) another player is obviously quite a major incident

I'm struggling to think of many worse things that happen in football matches too. Least not regularly

You think that he's have a lot of takers if he has a 20 game suspension?

Still love him and hope the suspension will only be for internationals...

A 20 game international suspension, purely owing to his availability for the clib he plays for makes him attractive to other teams

The fact that he bites other players doesn't

[James P]

Pretty much, yeah. Wasn't wearing a Liverpool shirt didn't even happen in this country.

The hand wringing and outrage in the the UK is comical

So I presume you think that if you, for example, got in a fight while on holiday and received a criminal record as a result, your employer has no business in knowing that and no right to react to it?

[Leyton388]

What would be funny would be if he got a 2 year international ban then a day later announced his retirement from international football.

I'd piss myself laughing at the explosion in the media.

[RedRum]

I feel sorry for him, does not deserve the abuse he gets from the media.

[McDermotX]

In Fifas statutes assault is 2 games, spitting is 6. He'll get about 8 I reckon. International only. I do wish FIFA would clarify this as it seem pretty clear they can only ban him from their own competitions.

Lad on the radio earlier, didn't catch the name, but he wrote a book on Bob Paisley before, says that rest assured, FIFA have the power to ban him from all football competition, not just international level. They could ask the FA to institute a domestic ban, or ultimately, do it themselves.

Which kind of makes sense if you think about it, considering the agreement all governing bodies in football have with FIFA, agreements to which every player signs up for.

[Buzzo]

Pretty much, yeah. Wasn't wearing a Liverpool shirt didn't even happen in this country.

The hand wringing and outrage in the the UK is comical

Alistair Cook and Roy Hodgson should be quietly thanking Louis big time.

Deflected all media attention away from them.