Luis Suárez

[kev776]

Put a major damper on the build to the new season, ****ing idiot.

[captainfog]

Nonsense

Good grief.

Studs up dangerous challenge vs a little nibble. Only one of those has the potential to end a career.

[Kenneth]

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.

He's talking about Italy.

[ChrisDR1968]

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.

Based on the fact that he keeps doing this sort of thing

It might be a good idea that any punishment doled out includes regular compulsory visits to a psychologist

I watched the film Ordinary People on Sunday and it seemed to have done the Timothy Hutton character a power of good

[captainfog]

(Italy)

Meh, **** them too. Not arsed about international football in the slightest. But if he is an Italy fan I think their failure to beat Costa Rica had more to do with their failure to qualify than Suarez.

[Kenneth]

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.

Fifa's Vice President, the English Jim Boyce, might influence things.

[Fierce]

Good grief.

Studs up dangerous challenge vs a little nibble. Only one of those has the potential to end a career.

Alright Captain Obtuse, obviously in terms of what is more dangerous to another human being there are lots of things that are worse, but I don't think anyone other than you is suggesting that is the case.

People are quite rightly shocked and surprised that an adult human being bit another human being. During a game

[PTP]

Nonsense

it's a tough one

they are clearly worse in terms of potential damage that can be done.......


but biting is worse cause there is something not quite right about it...


i'm not a dirty or hard player, but i've dived in late and snapped a couple people and meant it in the heat of the moment. I've even butted someone and got sent off. I've seen complete knobheads playing sunday league every week and all they were there for was a fight, i've seen the softest placid lads lose it and two foot someone. I've watched hundreds of games at every level

i've never seen anyone bit someone - certainly not three times

[MrMichael]

I don't believe FIFA will even consider a ban from anything other than international football. However I am quite sure that the FA will try to find a way to ban him domestically too, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with them.

Queens Park Rangers midfielder Joey Barton on Twitter: "I love Suarez. I love his passion for the game. I would have him on my team every day of the week. I am also aware you can't defend him here.

"All things considered I'd rather receive a bite than a leg-breaking challenge. Whilst he should be punished, it is not the end of the world."

Good lord, feels wrong but I do agree with Joey Barton

Does actually call into question whether his previous biting incidents were premeditated in order to engineer a move away from those clubs.

Looks like it wasnt. He's just a nutter.

I don't think it does anything of the sort, as any suggestion that any of his bites were attempts to engineer moves is, and always has been, completely ludicrous.

As you say, he's just a nutter

[G]

Fifa's Vice President, the English Jim Boyce, might influence things.

Aren't they all pretty pissed off at the English media exposing them as corrupt? May have a bearing too. I'd be pretty certain media coverage of this is low key everywhere else in the world cos they all have better things to be doing and really its not that big a deal.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

I don't believe FIFA will even consider a ban from anything other than international football. However I am quite sure that the FA will try to find a way to ban him domestically too, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with them.

Good lord, feels wrong but I do agree with Joey Barton

When Joey Barton is the one making sense in all of this you know the world has gone truly mad.

Don't know what to make of Suarez at this point. Disappointed by his behaviour but not disappointed for him. I don't care much for him now. I'm only concerned about how this affects the club.

[baitman]

yup - it's not pre-meditated, it's not to engineer a move to barca or spain which is completely ridiculous suggestions because if anything doing something like that is more likely to jeopardise a move.

Do people think his agent/suarez and barca have thought "the only way we can get this transfer to go through and force liverpool to sell him cheap, is if he goes and bites someone again"

bollocks - if you want to force a move, you become a cunt...you down tools, say your wife hates england, etc etc - you don't go around biting people


it's just pure mental madness - of such i've not seen before in football. Yes there are thugs in the game, who use elbows and bad tackles - i've seen them at every level from the top pro's even down to my weekly 5-a-side game where one lad is always looking to snap someone....


but biting - i've just never seen, certainly not three times by the same player and each time getting more high profile than last




I'm fuming with him for being such a dickhead and letting himself down and also after all the support us LFC fans and the club gave him he's just made a cunt of himself

but i'm also that shocked by it i find myself pissing with laughter of the sheer madness

not so mad...
twice before he has bitten someone, followed by suarez trying to engineer a move...

once the fact that he has done it while on international duty and it will mean he is out of the world cup sinks in then he will be regretting it, the daft ****.
i doubt it will affect him playing for LFC in the league, but it may in the CL.

[PTP]

but there is no real evidence though to suggest that he purposefully went out to bite someone, to force a move in either of those instances....to me it's more coincidence that after his first bite/ban we signed him.

[IJM]

Here in Denmark some news papers state that there has been a crisis meeting sfter the incident in the board of Liverpool FC. They say they discuss whether they should fire Luis or not. Have any of you heard anything about that? Can't see us firing Luis but I can understand if the club wants to get rid of him.

Something like that showed up on Newsnow.

Liverpool can't decide anything until FIFA make their ruling. But that doesn't stop the club from directing their lawyers to explore the legal implications of the various possible outcomes. But at some point we'll have to make a decision of whether or not to keep him or sell him. But if any kind of extended club level ban is imposed by FIFA, our options to keep or sell go out the window and we'd have to look at what other legal avenues we may have.

The big question is: Has Henry, FSG and the sponsors, etc had enough? Will they want rid of LS?

[MrMichael]

Why would it effect the CL? That's UEFA, not FIFA. Again, is there any precedent for a player being banned from European games for an on-pitch incident in international football? I can't find one.

but there is no real evidence though to suggest that he purposefully went out to bite someone, to force a move in either of those instances....to me it's more coincidence that after his first bite/ban we signed him.

Of course it wasn't premeditated any of the times, and I'll happily call anyone who thinks otherwise a moron. There are about a billion better ways to engineer moves, especially multi-million pound ones to top clubs who might well decide not to buy you if you go around biting people. I mean who the hell would come up with that as an idea? Jesus, it is so obviously an involuntary, primalistic (is that a word?) event even if it just happens once that suggestions otherwise are just laughable.