Suarez bites another player!

You'd think he was at Liverpool wouldn't you

 

My perspective is that if you're deliberately trying to injure someone, it's not a tackle. Roy Keane wasn't engaging in a bad tackle, he was being a vicious vindictive thug, pure and simple.

Of course, differentiating between a legitimate badly timed challenge/terrible tackle and a deliberate intent to injure is very difficult. Frankly, Keane got off far too lightly (something I doubt anyone would disagree with) and his offense was clearly far worse than Suarez's bite.

On a different note, I agree with the earlier point about preferring to get bitten than a broken leg, but I don't think the majority of broken legs are caused on purpose. Furthermore, you don't punish culprits based off what the victim would have preferred to happen to them. The point is that the intent to hurt was there, and that's what should be punished. In Suarez's case, it can't be denied. In Keane's case it was harder to prove; frankly if he'd have kept his mouth shut in his book (idiot), he'd have gotten away with it. Keane's offense was clearly far worse but both of them deserved to be severely punished. On a similar note, Suarez also deserved a worse punishment than Shawcross got for accidentally breaking Wilshire's leg, even though Shawcross technically did more damage.

 

Yep, I pretty much agree. Intent is the important factor for me. The difficulty comes when trying to define when a tackle is reckless.

 

He and Lennon had a good 'laugh' about that a week ago or so.

 

I remember there being a lot of outrage over Defoe and it being all over the back pages but the FA's hands were tied as the ref had seen it and dealt with it during the game.

 

He doesn't just bite......or dive

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4kSWnY2Z8

 

Liverpool deserve to be punished just as much as Uruguay, both teams have consistently rallied around this animal, excusing his behaviour and fuelling his paranoia

 

I'm unhappy with the lack of duration of the ban.
This sort of thing isn't business as usual.

On a personal level, he needs help and I don't think there is any hope of him getting it.
I'm surprised Chiellini didn't knock his teeth in, but then again I said the same thing about Ivanovic, too.

 

I really don't see what the big issue is.

 

Gary Lineker made a quip which Shearer found funny but Lennon looked like he forced a smile.

 

Coward is the one word that immediately springs to mind after every single one of those incidents.

 

So he's apologised for biting Chiellini, but not apologised for lying to the media, his teammates, manager, fans, supporters etc. In the first place. Ok then...

He's also assured that it'll never happen again. I can only assume he said the same thing after the previous two incidents.

When you do something that is wrong again and again, apologies are so hollow.

 

FFS, he only bit someone on the shoulder. It's not like he fiddled kids or planted anti-personnel landmines all over a village.

I think he's been screwed.

 

An article doing the rounds online yesterday said he had agreed a deal with Barcelona which was conditional on him making a full public apology for his bite. Low and behold the very next day he totally changes his stance and apologises.