Luis Suárez

[dizzycat]

I hope that didn't strike a nerve Shaggy?

Pots and kettles

Edit. Should have quoted bascombe

[Mostar]

Melly gets away with too much BS on twitter. He's miles worse than the likes of @IndyKaila. This guy just has an over active imagination

They are both bunch of nobodies pretending to be ITKs and I cannot comprehend how so many people could be so gullable and believe their ****e.

[Arn]

Is Suarez being forced out of LFC because he's South American?
14 Jun 2013 07:52

Uruguayan suggests its his roots that are making people 'drive him out' of England



Away on international duty on the other side of the world, Liverpool FC striker Luis Suarez keeps making noises on why he’s apparently being forced out of English football at Anfield.

Earlier this week Suarez concluded: “I’m South American and I think that’s the root of all this.”

For all the baggage that Suarez brings, he remains a truly world class football talent. The latest in a long line from the incredible little country that is Uruguay – the nation that surely punches the most above its weight in world football.

A mere 3 million people live in República Oriental del Uruguay (The Eastern Republic of Uruguay), to give them their full title, which is roughly the same as Wales.

But while our neighbours in the Principality have only ever qualified for one World Cup finals in the history of the tournament, Uruguay have lifted the trophy twice and were of course semi-finalists in South Africa 2010 with Suarez on board.

Amazingly, Uruguay have also won more Copa America titles (South America’s version of the European Championships) than anyone else.

Current holders of the trophy, both Suarez and his now Anfield team-mate Sebastian Coates helped them to victory for a record 15th time in 2011 – a staggering achievement when you consider they’re ahead of both Argentina and Brazil in the record books.

The great Uruguayan coach Ondino Viera, whose clubs included Liverpool FC (the Montevideo-based team that is), famously declared: “Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.”

Following the discovery of the new world, Europeans flocked to the Americas in search of riches, now the flow of human traffic goes in the opposite direction across the Atlantic as talented footballers such as Suarez come to Europe to find their fortune. While the financial rewards are great, young men like Suarez, often without a great education behind them, find themselves a long way from home in what to them is a strange and distant land.

Football might be a universal language but on many occasions, players can often be left feeling lonely away from the pitch.

Esteemed UK-based photojournalist Julio Etchart was born in Uruguay but settled in Britain after studying Documentary Photography here in the 1970s.

Etchart, whose portfolio includes work on football and Latins in the Americas and the UK, has sympathy for his compatriot’s plight.

He said: “I met Luis briefly only once, at an embassy reception last year, during the Olympics. “He struck me as a humble and honest young man, who, as we know, comes from a very modest background and had a difficult childhood as an under-privileged kid in a poor neighbourhood – not a dissimilar story from Pele, Maradona or Tevez. But it was obvious from our conversation that fame has not got into his head, as it has with so many other stars.”

Like Suarez, Etchart came to the UK in his 20s but while their circumstances are very different, he can empathise what it’s like to be a Uruguayan trying to make your way in this country.

He said: “I have been here for 40 years, coming in my early 20s as a political exile from what was then a military dictatorship.

“Although I felt a lot of solidarity from various sectors of society, and I was allowed to settle and follow the career of my choice in photojournalism, I suffered a lot of discrimination for being South American.

“All the usual stereotypes: lazy, unreliable, seedy, temperamental, etc, were thrown at me, and names like ‘dago’ were not uncommon either.

“I know that Britain has changed a lot since then, and it has become a more multicultural and tolerant country, but it is still a racist and discriminatory society.

“Though I have adjusted and learned to cope with it, I can understand how a person like Luis can feel about it, especially when he, unlike me, is in the limelight 24/7.”

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...ed-out-4312526

[Pablo]

Bit of a nothing article that really.

[spider-neil]

Bit of a nothing article that really.

They have to post 'something' or you'll have blank newpapers.
I suggest next time they run out of ideas they lead with a good joke.

[Fosterbloke]

They have to post 'something' or you'll have blank newpapers.
I suggest next time they run out of ideas they lead with a good joke.

Or a topless woman with massive tits...

[baitman]

Or a topless woman with massive tits...

slightly more preferably to the drivel some of these "reporters" invent/dream up to fill their word quota

[DannyMan2006]

In case anyone was believing the email still, the guy who originally posted it on twitter has fessed up to being a WUM and that everything he's said or posted in twitter has been a load of bollocks.

Basically saying he was trying to prove it was easy to spout of info people would believe - which is pointless as the point that its easy to wind people up had already been made in astronomic proportions by a certain mister Jenkins.....

[Shaggy]

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[G]

It was 6-8 people running it in fact. I follow a couple of their own accounts.

Anyway @indykalia is next up, he's been proved to actually work in a KFC.

[Fivex]

LFC/KFC?

Meh. Close enough.

[Mostar]

[Big-Red-Ed]

When I was young I was brought up on tales of Uruguay being the dirtiest team in international football. There was an infamous match against England in the 66 world cup. Maybe much of the anti Suarez press can be traced back to this.

[ChesterDave]

When I was young I was brought up on tales of Uruguay being the dirtiest team in international football. There was an infamous match against England in the 66 world cup. Maybe much of the anti Suarez press can be traced back to this.

The two world wars and one world cup song is still seen as a jolly jape by some so there is probably some truth to that

[ChesterDave]

Having said that. Diego Fallover got an easy ride