Yes but surely they'll know that he's going to do it again and then he will get 6+ months - it might be in the middle of the season too.
Suarez bites | "sorry for falling into him and biting him and that"
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I don't think he's banned from training, what's the source for that ?
and domestic cup games. From the list I posted I believe there are 2 league cup games. Not that they matter nearly as much. 15 total competitive games (not including the preseasons) for Liverpool if those fixtures hold.
The third part of the title is exactly how I feel about this situation. Lol indeed. It's ridiculous, in this day and age, that one of the best football professionals in the world has to be banned for biting a fellow pro for the THIRD time in his professional footballing career. 
Well, it looks I really should've used white text in that comment.
there should be a sarcastic font
What a clown. He has let his country down badly. They could have made a big impact at the WC with him in the team...they will struggle without him now
They said the only punishment that can be suspended was the fine, iirc.
No.
"The player Luis Suárez is to be suspended for nine (9) official matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup™ fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28 June 2014. The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay’s next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team’s subsequent official matches in accordance with art. 38 par. 2a) of the FDC."
Liverpool cannot appeal, only Uruguay. He can play in International friendlies
They've banned him from all football including any pre-season friendlies I think.
Chewd've known better.
what a joke! fifa has no balls at all.
he gets punished less that he did before, makes no sense to me.
the fine is nothing for someone getting paid what he does.
i think the only thing that will actually hurt him is the facts he's let uruguay down in this world cup.
i hope some of his team mates have a go at him about this.
although i don't like the guy, i hope nothing bad happens to him if he returns to urugauy now. we all know what happened to that poor columbian goalie all those years ago.
south americans can get really emotional about their national side so there is always a possibility it could get ugly.
if i were him i'd stay away from his homeland.
i heard that the english FA may also be able to punish suarez as well, don't know if thats true or not?
i think he will definitely get sold and never play for liverpool again.
i really hope liverpool fans and the players, old and present, finally have had enough of the guy.
i don't believe the owners of liverpool will want him associated with the club whatsoever. the club has stood by him and now look what has happened.
i'm gonna go look at some liverpool forums now!
he gets punished less that he did before, makes no sense to me.
the fine is nothing for someone getting paid what he does.
i think the only thing that will actually hurt him is the facts he's let uruguay down in this world cup.
i hope some of his team mates have a go at him about this.
although i don't like the guy, i hope nothing bad happens to him if he returns to urugauy now. we all know what happened to that poor columbian goalie all those years ago.
south americans can get really emotional about their national side so there is always a possibility it could get ugly.
if i were him i'd stay away from his homeland.
i heard that the english FA may also be able to punish suarez as well, don't know if thats true or not?
i think he will definitely get sold and never play for liverpool again.
i really hope liverpool fans and the players, old and present, finally have had enough of the guy.
i don't believe the owners of liverpool will want him associated with the club whatsoever. the club has stood by him and now look what has happened.
i'm gonna go look at some liverpool forums now!
Not at all I just find it weird that Liverpool can't appeal when they are now involved and affected more than before.
They're not allowed to apparently, which is correct, because its got feck all to do with them.
More than I expected and thought was reasonsable. But I don't really care and now I´m going to enjoy the rest of the tournament and forget about this incident.
Didn't you get the memo? Everything is racist these days.
I do think he should have received at least a 6 month ban world wide, 4 month is quite lenient I think, but glad to see FIFA actually doing something. Banned from football, banned from the stadiums, banned from training, banned from pre-season, it's quite nice really.
Also, Liverpool cannot appeal.
There's a stadium ban too
He won't be anywhere near match fit after this you'd assume. No football for 4months is a big amount of time. I reckon he'll be struggling til December/New Year to get match fitness back.
My guess is it remains ambiguous if you say the ban starts at the start of the season
Does he still participate in pre season? Wouldn't that impact his complete football activity ban
Their reasoning is that as soon as it's communicated it comes into effect which is fair
I personally think 6 months would've sufficed but it could it have a lot more lenient
Denying it IS idiotic! Even now, after all the things he's done, after a third time he's bitten someone, they are still defending/downplaying his actions. This very fact is in itself a catalyst for more of the same incidents in the future!
Suarez does not seem to comprehend that biting someone on the pitch is not to be tolerated. He has to be explained/taught/told/showed that it is unacceptable behaviour and it has to come from his environment to have an effect. International media , FIFA, national FAs and fans from rival teams won't be able to tell him that effectively because they are the enemy who have it in for Suarez in his own eyes. He won't trully listen to them. When his environment such as teammates, family, coaches and maybe even his own fans sit him down and explain/teach/tell/show him his behaviour is really unacceptable, he might actually be able to see his own flaws as it is those that loved and supported him that tell him this. And then he can truly work on improving himself and stop doing the things he does such as the biting.
You can compare it to an alcoholic really. An alcoholic has to recognize the problem himself before he can truly change his ways and do something about it. Outsiders who tell him he's an alcoholic won't have any positive effect on the alcoholic. But when it's his closest family and friends and best collegues that all sit him down and have an intervention and tell them their worries about the drinking, he is a lot more likely to see what kind of effect his drinking is causing and what is wrong with it. If you translate the Suarez situation to the alcoholic situation, the friends and family in this case are basically telling the alcholic that he's right and the outsiders who tell him he drinks too much are wrong, even though he just ran over someone while driving drunk. How can this alcoholic possibly ever work on his problem if his closest environment tell him this? That's not helping at all!! And that's exactly what Suarez' environment is doing now.
His closest environment, by defending him/denying it, are acting as a catalyst for future similar behaviour. If his teammates and the FA would actually admit to what happened, they could help him a lot more than they are doing now. And that would help themselves a lot more in the long run too. Argueing that it happened at the World Cup and they just want to deny it so that he has a chance to still play in this World Cup is rather silly in my opinion. Anyone with half a brain knows that FIFA simply can't do anything else but ban him now (the lenght is up for discussion). After what he did, that was just it and Uruguayan players and coaches should in stead try to control the damage. Admit to the problem of the player, showing initiative to work on the player's problem, having Suarez admit to it publicly and show remource to hope for a reduced ban, accept whatever ban the FIFA gives. Those are all things that can work in the player's favour in both the short and long term. What is happening now with Uruguayan players and coaches is making it worse for the player and themselves in short and long term.
He's banned from all football. This means professional training too.
I really want to hear from Lugano.
Bloody hilarious. It's ridiculous to think how matches Suarez has missed over the last few years due bans. I mean for the second year running, he will miss the start of a league campaign due to biting someone.
that would be wonderful, cant play for liverpool till november, the leaves in january..... where it much harder to buy a replacment......
FIFA aren't sure what a total football ban means in regards to transfers
What an absolutely gigantic cop out from FIFA. Their golden chance to really throw the book at him and they've bottled it big time. I'm annoyed as it should have been much longer but not surprised because FIFA couldn't run a bath and if they told me it was light outside I'd open the curtains to check.
Sends an appalling message out that this kind of behaviour isn't being taken seriously.
Sends an appalling message out that this kind of behaviour isn't being taken seriously.
Friendlies are official matches. They count for ranking points, which will affect the National Team's chances in the World Cup 2018.
yes, no doubt it's all down to the english media, and has nothing to do with the fact he bit someone for the third time.
They should've extended it to over the pre-season.
I now fullly understand why he was born with such grotesque rat-teeths 
Its all football related activity.
He cant even enter a stadium to watch a game for four months, even if his team isnt playing there.
He should've just got his meniscus repaired properly if he was going to miss this much football anyway
I'm surprised. Was expecting something along the lines of a £8000 fine.
He has been banned 34 games since 2010.
Insane really. They should have given him a longer ban tbh.FIFA aren't sure what a total football ban means in regards to transfers
I can almost hear the howling about the injustice of it all coming from Victim FC already.
Uruguay is a much less violent society than Columbia was at the time they shot that fella.
Haha this is brilliant. I expected him to be banned from the rest of the World Cup and probably a few internationals after that but I honestly didn't think they'd ban him for any domestic games.
The scousers reaction will be comedy gold.
The scousers reaction will be comedy gold.
Yup, they should've taken the pre-season into account and extended it by 2 months. But I agree, I thought they were going to be more lenient.