Not sure what the thinking is there.
Funny thing in all this is that Liverpool are yet to blame him for anything he's done. They have supported him in his misconduct all along.
To be fair, I'm sure we'd have punished Cantona, but it wasn't a he said/he didn't say thing. Also, we punished him for 4 months expecting FA not to add any more ban time, but they did and pissed off Fergie. Liverpool are right to feel aggrieved about paying Suarez for this 4 months time though, they are welcome to contest that.
Or remember that they signed him whilst he was banned for biting Otmann Bakkal. Then pretended he was the victim when he racially abused Evra. Then stood by him when he bit Ivanovic. No doubt they will stand by him yet again, given that he's not actually done it in a Liverpool shirt. Fact is, since 2010 or whenever the stat says, he's been banned 34 games. Incredible.
Those 'add ons' are there because FIFA wants to put him completely out of the picture for the duration of the ban.
Surely there's some reporting in Uruguay pointing out that FIFA hate the English media?
Really all that needs to be said.
I agree with the "why you shouldn't sell him" schtick. But the rest of it is just the "it's not as bad as a leg break/other people have done worse" shit over and over again.
Fair points as far as him not being in the stadiums during the World Cup is concerned. Still doens't explain why he can't stick around with the team in their training camp, nor why during the four months he is banned from playing for Liverpool he is also barred from training with them. That's a pretty fecking ridiculous concept and I frankly have no recollection of FIFA or any FA banning someone from training at his club. Clubs take that sort of action, not ruling bodies.
You have some issues with "English" people. I'll leave the various generalizations aside as I dont want to get into specifics as it will distract from my main point: Your issues come from yourself. You're overly defensive for whatever personal reasons, and this is causing you to make some fairly aggressive and innaccurate accusations about an entire nationality. One of the ironies of when people attack Englishness is that English people don't really offence. Think about why that is, rather than taking it as a license to make snide and inflammatory comments. Like I said, your issues lie within yourself, dont take to the internet ranting and raving about how the bad guys from another country are to blame.
Nope. The Embassy have their work cut out dealing with this. The Ambassador is a top guy though, I'm sure he will handle it well.
I think Jupiter had a point re: eliminating the distraction during the tourno. Him not being able to be at the next 9 Uruguay games is a bit weird though, takes you well into 2015 that. Surely no one gives a shit if Suarez attends an NT game in Feb 2015?
I did exactly what some people were doing towards uruguayans at the time of my posts, It was a response rather than an accusation.
And the Loose Women panel were scathing. I hope Suarez hangs his head in shame.
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He is missing the not insignificant point of Suárez having spent a month injured and trying to regain fitness in what was effectively knockout games. What he lacked in fitness he tried to make up in some other way, it's what he has always done, that's how he has always ended up in hot water.
Yes.
They're all fecking doolally on that site.
Holy sheet. I'm dying.
At the end of the day, when Suarez is frustrated and he loses his head, he does something silly. Outlandish tackle, dive or in serious frustration, takes a bite. I don't think he puts a whole of thinking in it, and tries to get anything out of it. Once he does it, he does the 'Oh I'm injured too', once he realises what he has done. Only Suarez can say for certain, but he's only got himself to blame. Other Uruguayans can drink the same drink he's drinking, but I'm sure there are a lot of level headed people in the good country of Uruguay who think Suarez is a proper nutter, like how many in England don't give a feck about him.
Can you imagine a scenario where someone actually took full responsibility? Why does it never happen?
That would actually be a good thing to see for once.
) but the general length of ban is pretty lenient to me. I expected a year long total football ban. I don't think that would have been over the top at all. Then, isn't that.. silly, you think?
While I agree, I didn't have much expectation that FIFA would actually do anything substantial, or so quickly.
Okay, look, I'll spell it out one last time: the actions of Liverpool Football Club, in not only defending Suarez for his racist abuse of Evra but in their attempts to besmirch Evra's name in the process, along with all the other times I've listened to or read of Liverpool fans somehow denying or minimizing the seriousness of Suarez's transgressions, have sickened me to my stomach. You (collectively—not speaking individually here, which perhaps is the mistake you're making, thinking I'm addressing this only to you) have looked the other way, making weaksauce excuses like "Evra moved his hand slightly in the lineup" and "how bad is a bite compared to [fill in other transgression]?" or "Sir Alex has colluded with the FA," all because you wanted to keep this nutbar at your club, because you are bitterly consumed with hatred and envy of United's last twenty years and you saw him as possibly levelling that playing field. That, my friend, is moral cowardice. As for hilarious, I already said I am joyful the whole world got to see the measure of this "man" on the game's biggest stage. Can you follow that now? That the two things are not mutually exclusive, and that this is a feeling of vindication, having argued with his apologists in the past.
No.
