Luis Suárez

[fah-q]

Who's Alistair Cook?

[captainfog]

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



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

Every time someone goes over the ball, every time an elbow is raised. All these things are worse, much worse.

[ChesterDave]

And? It's a supposed to be a contact sport. Players kick lumps out of eachother in every game.

Contact sport is not an excuse for some of the challenges that we see of a football field. People tolerate deliberate kicks and horror challenges because "it's part of the game"

It ****ing well shouldn't be.

Repeatedly deliberately kicking an opponent is scummy.

[RichC]

He clearly needs some sort of help with this but if you take it in context of other incidents in football - Keane trying to break Halands leg, Moureen sticking his finger in an eye or perhaps zidane head butting Matterazzi its not worse than them. You can't defend him for his actions but the reaction from the British media is typically OTT I mean it's all that's been discussed on SSN today.

Hopefully he'll only receive an international ban but I wouldn't rule anything out at the moment as it's "Suarez" and if he thought he was given a tough time in the press over here before it's now going to be a hell of a lot worse.

I fancy if the right bid comes in we might well cut our losses now, it'll be gutting but the press will be relentless with him and probably us as well and FSG and Rodgers could take the view of take what we can and pass the issue off to someone else.

[captainfog]

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?

He's not going to get in a criminal record. Jesus, listen to yourself!!

[Fierce]

Every time someone goes over the ball, every time an elbow is raised. All these things are worse, much worse.

Nonsense

[PTP]

Who's Alistair Cook?

englands cricket captain/****bag

[RichC]

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

Deflected all media attention away from them.

Suarez is a proper servant to English sport

[Kenneth]

Who's Alistair Cook?

England's **** cricket captain. Nobody important.

[Fierce]

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.

If the infringement is serious, in particular but not limited to doping, unlawfully influencing match results, misconduct against match officials, forgery and falsification or violation of the rules governing age limits the associations, confederations, and other organising sports bodies shall request FIFA to extend the sanctions they have imposed so as to have worldwide effect

If the judicial bodies of FIFA discover that associations, confederations and other sports organisations have not requested a decision to be extended to have worldwide effect, these bodies may themselves pass a decision.

[captainfog]

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

That doesn't make any sense. The incident happened after England's game and has no bearing on England's lack of progression.

**** England anyway.

[topscorer]

From a BBC article:-

Chiellini pulled himself up from the ground and went straight to the Mexican referee Marco Rodríguez - whose nickname happens to be Dracula - to protest. The Juventus defender pulled down the neck of his shirt to expose what, viewed later on photographs, appeared to be a bite mark.

You couldn't make it up lol. [emoji23][emoji23]

[Paddy]

Have seen someone say that it's not half as bad as a spear tackle in rugby. Yes, biting aint as bad as a tackle that could very easily kill someone.

[G]

Nobody else appears to be that arsed about it than the English so maybe FIFA aren't either. One of the English journos tweeted last night that out 100 journos at the post game press conference only the English ones wanted to talk about the bite.

[Fierce]

That doesn't make any sense. The incident happened after England's game and has no bearing on England's lack of progression.

**** England anyway.

(Italy)