The Football.....

[Beebo]

Battle of the biters....

I'd pay good money to watch Tyson smash Suarez.
Interestingly, both were born on the wrong side of the tracks, and found huge fame and fortune through their chosen sport. I hope Suarez comes out of it better than Tyson did.

 

[accountantpete]

This sort of thing didn't happen in my day...

 

[MikeG]

He's not once damaged another player sufficiently to put them out of a subsequent game though

Oh, that's alright then. Carry on biting..........

 

[martint235]

Oh, that's alright then. Carry on biting..........

Well unless we're going to introduce some consistency and proportionality into it...... If you get 2 months for biting, breaking a players' leg should be at least a year long ban. Committing a foul that carries a strong risk of causing that level of damage should carry 6 months.

 

[MikeG]

I get it .....you're deliberately playing devil's advocate.

For those who think you are being serious, I'll just mention that tackles can be mistimed or ill judged. Deliberately biting someone can never be construed as an accident or a misjudged legal action.

 

[martint235]

I get it .....you're deliberately playing devil's advocate.

For those who think you are being serious, I'll just mention that tackles can be mistimed or ill judged. Deliberately biting someone can never be construed as an accident or a misjudged legal action.

No I'm not. Being bitten is extremely unlikely to cost a professional footballer his livelihood is it? Deliberately mistiming a tackle or performing a two footed off the ground tackle or a scissor tackle carries a significant risk of putting a footballer out of the game for several weeks, months or even for the rest of their life.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

If he's anything like my dog, it'll be flat.

To be fair to your dog he'd probably watched you trying to hobble over and kick it back only for it to rebound off the wall and end up back in the garden over and over again. He was probably trying to put you out of your misery.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Anyway, all this Suarez talk is deflecting from England being put out...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Don't see why Liverpool should be punished for an incident that happened whilst playing for his country, surely it should have been an Internationals ban only?

They knew what they were buying into, didn't they?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Don't see why Liverpool should be punished for an incident that happened whilst playing for his country, surely it should have been an Internationals ban only?

If I went out and glassed someone tonight using the defence "You can't send me to prison because my family and my employer would suffer" would not cut any ice.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

There does seem to be a massive over-reaction to a childish but relatively trivial offence. We are a nation who eulogise the likes of Tommy Smith, Billy Bremner, Maurice Setters and many others who were nothing more than vicious thugs and whose "Hard but fair" (ho ho) method of winning the ball ensured that many of their opponents spent months out injured and ended up needing plastic knees and hips later in their lives, yet we go all pious when some "Dirty Dago" causes a few seconds minor pain to a player.

Mountain out of a mole hill.

That's not really what I was saying...

 

[Smokin Joe]

That's not really what I was saying...

But you would have if you'd thought of it first...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

There seems to be of disquiet amongst some of the African teams; Cameroon and Ghana especially, which seems to have not been commented on much. Anyone got any background to this? I have had a look on google but can't find anything that sets out anything in one article and wondered if anyone was "in the know" about African football.

If not, I'll go and read an assortment of articles and keep it to myself

 

[craigwend]

#Suarez has been banned from all football related activity so technically he could play for Stoke.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Valid points made by Strachan on ITV, "football has morals...all that matters is winning"