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AndyRM
XOXO
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There is some half decent thinking in there. Shame it's been padded by total bollocks.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
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- Reading
Must be a worrying time for a Liverpool fan. OTOH they hope this incident will put Real Madrid and Barcelona off buying him, OTOH they worry the FIFA ban might apply to domestic games, OTOH if the ban only applies to international games that might make him even more attractive to Real Madrid and Barcelona. I suppose what they would really like is a ban that applies to all international games plus just enough domestic games to put off other buyers.
martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
I think, as a Liverpool fan, we are now largely beyond whatever ban is issued. Suarez's future at Liverpool won't be decided by FIFA, it will be decided by John Henry and Standard Chartered.
Any ban issued in the next few days, unless an extremely lengthy one, will be by the by. What Henry will be thinking when Real or Barca offer €80m is "How long will the next ban be?"
cd365
Guru
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- Coventry, uk
I personally can't see him being banned for Liverpool games. I might be wrong of course but FIFA haven't got the balls to do that.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
"nibbling on a shoulder" -
accountantpete
OAP
9 matches and 4 month total ban. (so first 9 LFC Premiership matches and 2 CL)
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AndyRM
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I wonder how they'll enforce the 4 month total football ban. What if his neighbours kids boot a ball into his garden?
If he's anything like my dog, it'll be flat within five seconds.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
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- Odawa
I agree with the ban but I also have a lot of sympathy for Suarez as a person and I can see why he inspires such lunatic conspiratorial defence from his fellow Uruguayans. This superb article, written before the World Cup but even more telling in light of what happened, really tells you what you need to know: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...nner-luis-suarez-soccer-most-beautiful-player
Summary, for those who don't have the time to read it (although you really should): He's the kind of footballer it is impossible to imagine these days in Britain: a dirt-poor kid who did everything he could to be as good a footballer as he could and he did it all for the hope of escape offered by love and family - but he has serious flaws, not the least of which is the rage that seems to take him over at certain moments and unfortunately the intensity and pressure of professional sport is exactly the kind of setting in which those demons are likely to be unleashed.
Summary, for those who don't have the time to read it (although you really should): He's the kind of footballer it is impossible to imagine these days in Britain: a dirt-poor kid who did everything he could to be as good a footballer as he could and he did it all for the hope of escape offered by love and family - but he has serious flaws, not the least of which is the rage that seems to take him over at certain moments and unfortunately the intensity and pressure of professional sport is exactly the kind of setting in which those demons are likely to be unleashed.
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
£66,000 fine. Three days wages.
He's bitten a Dutchman and a Serb and an Italian so far!
He was banned for 7 matches for biting Bakkal, 10 for biting Ivanovic, are you suggesting than 11 matches is appropriate for a 3rd offence? What would you envisage for a 4th bite?
