Luis Suárez

[chadrtc]

Hate that cunt with a passion but to be honest we'd have done the same thing

[AnfieldForever]

Have a look at this belter.

Did Suarez eat Ivanovic? How the **** is he a cannibal?

[AnfieldForever]

Poyet

He's class

[Chazza]

So the Mirror, who probably have no insider information, reckon it will be 8 games

Luis Suarez bite: Disgraced Liverpool striker's ban set to continue well into next season
22 Apr 2013 22:31

Hearing over shocking attempt to sink teeth into Chelsea defender Ivanovic could see the controversial Kop idol suspended for eight matches

Luis Suarez faces being banned from football until September after being slapped with an FA charge over his bite attack on Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.

Liverpool striker Suarez can expect to be sidelined for the rest of this season - and possibly for the start of next - as the FA are ready to hit him with a possible EIGHT-match ban for the shocking way he clamped his teeth onto the stunned defender's arm.

Suarez must respond to the charge by 6pm on Tuesday evening with the hearing already pencilled in for Wednesday.

It means the controversial 26-year-old faces an automatic suspension that will start immediately.

The commission has unlimited powers of sentencing and it seems certain to rule his season is over and possibly add an exemplary ban to take him deep into the 2013-14 campaign.

An FA spokesman said: “It is alleged that the conduct of Suarez constitutes violent conduct and it is the FA’s contention that the standard punishment of three matches that would otherwise apply is clearly insufficient in these circumstances.”

However, Liverpool will resist calls to transfer list their controversial Uruguay - chief executive Ian Ayre insists Suarez will be offered one last chance.

Ayre said that while the club deplores the actions of the player and has hit him with a £250,000 fine, they are desperate to help him resolve his obvious, acute problems.

And that will see Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers encourage Suarez to work with leading sports psychologist Dr Steve Peters, whose work has helped the likes of ex-Reds striker Craig Bellamy, in a bid to control the explosive anger issues that are threatening his career.

Peters already works at Anfield one day a week, and his area of expertise is in helping sportsman control their damaging emotional knee-jerk instincts, and replace them with a more logical response.

Ayre revealed he and manager Rodgers have already sat down with Suarez and made clear he can never repeat Sunday’s shameful actions... and must seek help to change his destructive behaviour patterns.

“We’ve spoken to him, and we’ll work with Luis - Brendan particularly - on this side of his character in his game. This is more about getting him back on the right track and it’s largely down to Brendan now to work with him on that side of his character,” Ayre explained.

“Luis has shown a lot of contrition, he feels he let a lot of people down. We’ll wait and see if there’s any further action from the football authorities.”

Ivanovic will not “accept” Suarez’s apology for biting him - even though the Serb told the police the matter was closed.

Although Ivanovic spoke to his assailant on Sunday, the Chelsea defender is still seething at being on the end of an act of attempted cannibalism by the Liverpool striker and unimpressed by claims he has accepted Suarez's apology.

It has emerged that Surrey Police arrived unannounced at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground on Sunday evening, awaiting the return of Rafa Benitez's squad from Merseyside.

Officers asked to see Ivanovic and inspected his right arm to see if there were any puncture wounds which had been caused by Suarez’s astonishing assault.

Fortunately for the defender, Suarez’s teeth did not break the skin and Ivanovic sustained no injury in the incident which has scandalised the game and force Liverpool to fine their star asset ahead of his looming FA ban.

Ivanovic, who had been assessed by Chelsea medics before leaving Liverpool, made it clear to the police that he was not interested in pressing charges.

But while he took Suarez’s apologetic phone call, he was still left shocked and bewildered by what happened and is in no mind to forgive the Uruguayan, either publicly or privately

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/luis-suarez-bite-eight-match-ban-1847959

[fred_plasticine]

Even if the punishment is ludicrous and does'nt fit the crime in any sense ?

That's a bad attitude to take imo, and would be wholly wrong.

The crime can't be appealed, but if the ban is stupidly over the top we have to appeal that. It would be the right and fair thing to do. imo.

It's what would happen when any justice/punishment is being handed down surely?

Those handing out punishemnts have a responsibility too, and that is to keep it in context, and not react to media pressure.

i see your point.
it's a matter of principle to fight any ruling that seems disappropriate and doesn't fit the crime. authorities should only be allowed to judge within their rules and these rules should be clear cut to avoid arbitrary rulings.
and yes, you can both fight such a punishment while at the same time condemning the actions of suarez and openly welcoming an appropriate sentence.
however, it's a tight line to dance on, pr wise.

[Cormack74]

Has he been deported yet?

[Aj34]

i see your point.
it's a matter of principle to fight any ruling that seems disappropriate and doesn't fit the crime. authorities should only be allowed to judge within their rules and these rules should be clear cut to avoid arbitrary rulings.
and yes, you can both fight such a punishment while at the same time condemning the actions of suarez and openly welcoming an appropriate sentence.
however, it's a tight line to dance on, pr wise.

I think anything over an 8 match ban would be seen as excessive but like you say any sort of appeal could be a pr disaster

[Captain Stu]

Seeing as he got 7 matches in Holland, that'll be the minimum and with him having prior problems in England I can see them making this 10 games or something like that.

I don't really like him but Ollie Holt made a good point yesterday, people are holding up Bale as a model example of a professional footballer even with his predisposition to diving all over the show.

[Norbs]

Look above kind sir the facts speak for themselves I would prefer to keep him but that chap was talking poppycock
Dinner soon

My eyes and ears tell me far more than those stats do. Suarez is our most important player, to suggest otherwise is cuntified

[kev776]

Guardian.

Shame on you, we don't do this rag, too left wing for this site.

[kev776]

The whole of Europe is demanding the death pelanty for Suarez, the FA have Carte Blanche to hit as hard as they want, nobody will support him on this. Time to suck it up and carry on.

[Captain Stu]

Whatever ban they give him will be deemed not enough - they've already ruled out a standard 3 match ban but if they give 5 - people will want 7. If they give 7 - people will want 10. If they give 10 - people will want 15.

Pleased to see a few journalists realising how up in arms everyone is about this and seemingly ignore, for example, McManamanananananan's tackle on Heidara.

[Reece]

Panic over! Borini is back in full training today!

[Captain Stu]

Panic over! Borini is back in full training today!

Oh, and Dave Cameron can **** off too. Politics and football shouldn't mix, especially when you're an over-privileged richboy tory cunthole.

[RichC]

Good news if he can get some game time before the end of the season.

I think we're going to see a 12 game ban for Luis, rest of this season and then the first 8 of next .