Luis Suárez

[Fierce]

Much more acceptable than serious xenophobia apparently.

Only applies to easy targets.

Naturally

Wherefore art thou xenophobia though?

[Shaggy]

Mills on the Pardew headbutt

[RichC]

what a bell end!!

[Fierce]

Mills on the Pardew headbutt

Did you find both of these or have you lifted from elsewhere? If the former, you have to get it out there!

[Phoenix07]

Danny Mills is trying so hard to make himself relevant since being appointed onto Dyke's FA Commission, but he's just a pointless individual.

He's the type of person who sticks his finger in the air to see which way the air is blowing, and follows along like a little sheep.

[Kenneth]

****ing LOL

Now that's a spicy meatball.

[Shaggy]

It really is this simple.

SUAREZ BITES MAN: I THINK WORDS AND WRITE THEM

by Neil Atkinson // 25 June 2014 // 31 Comments

OOOOOOH.

A Suarez has bit someone think piece.

Easy these.

There might as well be a billion of them; at the time of writing there is at least a million. But let’s make it a million and one. On the off chance it means or adds anything. Here’s the gist of my Suarez has bitten someone think piece:

It very much looks like Suarez has bit someone.

He should be banned for a while.

It is entirely uncomplicated. Shall we repeat it for those at the back?

Luis Suarez has bitten an opposing player.

He should be banned for a few games.

Is there more to say?

While the above should be the end of the matter across the board, there probably is. Firstly, I’m not embarrassed. Why would I be? Why would anybody who isn’t Luis Suarez be? And whether or not he is is his own decision.

Secondly, I’m not defending him. Why would I? Why would anyone? Looks to me like he bit the lad. He should be banned for a few games. This isn’t a moral thing. Morality doesn’t come into it. He’s transgressed and there should be consequences. No more than a dreadful leg-breaking tackle. The proponent of a bite or a dreadful tackle should be banned. There are a set of rules. You transgress, you get punished. He should be banned.

Those games should be Uruguay games. They shouldn’t be Liverpool games. Just as when he last bit a lad playing for Liverpool he was banned for Liverpool games, not Uruguay games. There are a set of rules.

He could very much do with packing in biting people. Uncontroversial I know. I’d rather he broke people’s legs or jaws if he is going to get retrospective punishment. Biting people doesn’t have that “ending the opponent’s game” vibe. They just wonder, not unreasonable, what the ****ing hell is going on.

Still there’s going to be the lack of an element of surprise soon. Graeme Souness in 1984 as per Tony Evans’s terrific book on the season broke the jaw of the Dinamo Bucharest captain Lica Movila with a punch. That sort of thing should result in retrospective punishment. Souness didn’t even get a ban. He went to Bucharest and played, his socks torn to ribbons at half time.

However generally speaking Luis Suarez could do without doing anything at all that leads to retrospective punishment whether playing for Uruguay or Liverpool. Mostly because he’s far more dangerous to opposing players playing the football rather than watching it. Partially because I don’t like to see jaws broken or shoulders bitten.

There’s a conversation to be had about his intensity within the game. His desire to win. And what that can boil over into. I’d generally speaking rather let the professionals converse on mental health but as this is a think-piece…
Had Godin scored minutes earlier the bite doesn’t happen. You know it. I know it. So if we know this then what can we extrapolate from it?

Ultimately, I’ve not seen a player wear a football match as much as Suarez does in my life. Not one. But not only does he wear it, he appears, from the outside, as a man who has never met him nor knows much about him bar watching him, he appears to be worn by one. He needs them to go his way and if they don’t he gradually falls apart. Sometimes he falls apart and the ball ends up in the back of the net. Sometimes he falls apart and he tries to do everything on his own. His need to win is this profound. It is supernatural. It aches within him and therefore his inherent ability to make them single-handedly go his way is both a blessing and a curse. You name the game and Suarez knows he can win it. He knows he can, by virtue of his presence, ensure his team comes out on top. And he is right in this assessment. He’s one of the best three players on the planet. Watching him, watching this profound need is entralling. He may not be quite the best on the planet but there’s no one I’d rather watch. Everything you love about football is present here. He is us on our best day. He is us on our worst. We’ve discussed this before but Suarez is chaos, Suarez splinters everything into bits. On the pitch Suarez is football in its purest form. He is enthralling. He is spellbinding. He is compelling. He isn’t nice. He isn’t pleasant. He isn’t genteel. But then nor is football.

Love him. Hate him. Think whatever you want. Write your own think-piece thinking it. But if football was primeval then Suarez is the essence of what was in the swamp. What would Bill Shankly think? I reckon it would be “I’ll have another ten of you.” As this is a Suarez think-piece I don’t need to support that but if I did I’d mention Ian St John getting himself sent off three times back when you had to work hard to get sent and there weren’t cameras everywhere for retrospective action. And no player was more Shankly than St John. If there was it might have been Keegan. And he had a fight with Billy Bremner in the Charity Shield. Football. It isn’t nice. It isn’t pleasant. It isn’t genteel. And there was no golden age when it was.

I’d much rather Luis Suarez wasn’t biting people. I’d much rather he wasn’t getting himself involved in anything that detracts/distracts from what he can do with the football. And for the last ten months at Liverpool, he hasn’t. He’s been astonishingly well behaved, focussed on his game and ours, not on anything else. He’s been an even better player for that. A far more productive footballer. None of his intensity has waned in the slightest. So this isn’t a “if you take that away from his game…” thing.

Take it away from his game if you can. Please do. Ban him for a few games for certain. Take it away and ban him.

He’ll still be enthralling. He’ll still be compelling. In this most remarkable of World Cups it has only been tonight I’ve craved watching Brendan Rodgers’s Tricky Reds. Craved seeing all those lads back together led by this crazed, glorious maniac.

What does that say about me?

Regardless, let me refer you to the top of this Luis Suarez think-piece. I’m not embarrassed by Luis Suarez. Nor am I defending Luis Suarez. But I remain utterly spellbound by Luis Suarez. I want two months to pass and I want to see what he does next. I’m thirty three years old. I suspect I have one more year of watching him play for my team and I suspect I will never see his like again. I want it to be the best year of my life and suddenly, still up at midnight suddenly, not going to sleep any time soon suddenly, energised by the cant of opposing supporters suddenly, provoked by a bite of all things suddenly and considering rewatching the season review suddenly, I can’t wait for it to start.

[Fierce]

That's not very simple

[Shaggy]

How isn't it? He bit someone, ban him for some international games. It's not "embarrassing" for us as individuals nor as a collective. He did something mad, punish him. That's it, isn't it?

All I'd add is the guy needs some help.

[Leyton388]

The world is full of moral outraged pussies.

End of the day he's done it, ban him for international games and move on.

[Buzzo]

Danny Mills

[Shaggy]

Did you find both of these or have you lifted from elsewhere? If the former, you have to get it out there!

It's already out there

[RichC]

How isn't it? He bit someone, ban him for some international games. It's not "embarrassing" for us as individuals nor as a collective. He did something mad, punish him. That's it, isn't it?

All I'd add is the guy needs some help.

Ideally that would be the end but we all know it won't, the press over here will be dining out on this for quite some time I'm afraid to say I mean look at SSN today every two minutes there's some other forgotten about player giving his opinion about the evil Luis Suarez.

[Yozza]

Luis Suaréz: Fifa promises urgent decision over ‘biting’ incident

• Disciplinary committee asked for footage from Italy game
• ‘They will address the matter with the necessary urgency’
• Suárez ‘bite’ incident leaves Uruguay striker facing long ban

Fifa has promised that its disciplinary committee will come to an “urgent decision” on Luis Suárez’s apparent bite into Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder.

The world football governing body opened disciplinary proceedings into the incident late on Tuesday night after the Uruguay player prompted outrage by apparently sinking his teeth into the Italian’s shoulder.

“The disciplinary committee understands the urgency of the matter and is working to make a decision as soon as possible, particularly as Uruguay are still in the tournament,” said a Fifa spokeswoman, indicating that it would come to a quick decision.

“They have already showed they are fully aware of the urgency of the matter. They will address the matter with the necessary urgency.”

Fifa’s independent disciplinary committee is expected to meet after 5pm tonight local time (9pm BST), the deadline Uruguay and Suárez have been given to provide evidence and witness statements to make their position clear.

The independent committee, chaired by the Swiss Claudio Sulser, has requested footage of the incident from a variety of different angles and other evidence.

“Let the disciplinary committee do their duty and wait until they have their decision. The body deciding the sanction decides the scope of it,” the spokeswoman said.

“We have to wait, we will communicate as soon as we have an update. For the moment we don’t have more to say on that matter.”

Fifa has the power to ban Suárez for up to two years and, theoretically, to extend any ban to domestic as well as international football.

However, while it has banned officials and executives from all football activities in the past sanctions applied to players have almost always only applied to international matches.

The Fifa spokeswoman said she was “not aware” of any plans for Suárez to go to Rio de Janeiro to be interviewed. Instead, Uruguay will submit written evidence. “The player deserves to be heard,” she said.

Uruguay, scheduled to play Colombia on Saturday in Rio, trained in Natal on Wednesday but Suárez did not take part.

Fifa pointed to article 118 of its rulebook, which states that if a ban is of less than three matches or two months then there is no right of appeal. However, Uruguay would still be able to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport.

In previous cases during the World Cup or Olympics, CAS has convened emergency sessions to come to a quick decision on whether it will hear an appeal.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/25/luis-suarez-fifa-decision-biting-chiellini?

[Liverpel]

I can picture him right now. Sitting outside the FIFA offices, nervously nibbling on someone's nails.