Suarez at it again
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He's had help. It didn't work.
He needs more help, and needs keeping away from the source of his obvious problem, i.e. other footballers, for a long time, like 1 or 2 years.
He needs more help, and needs keeping away from the source of his obvious problem, i.e. other footballers, for a long time, like 1 or 2 years.
I would imagine a good lawyer will get the ban reduced on appeal.
Imagine growing up with those teeth. Bet he took some stick. Maybe the biting is a response from his childhood.
He needs help ???? He's plays football, something we do for the sheer enjoyment, and get's paid millions. Are you one of them types who think it's a good idea to send serial burglars,on all expenses paid holidays ?
I'll give it a go Charlie. Even though these aren't necessarily my opinions on the matter.
Biting is a taboo within society.
In a 'Saturday nights alright for fighting' scenario it is generally seen as going too far. When ears and noses are bitten off it is perceived by most people as being a dirty, cowardly, ungentlemanly thing to do.
So why?
Well I would suggest that the hygiene reason is fairly pertinent as to why the taboo developed, but perhaps it is more to do with a psychological superiority we have developed over other primates and large mammals.
Most animals use their mouths to experience their environment to a far greater degree than we do. Observe 2 dogs playing for example and they'll be constantly snapping at each others faces in a very Suaraz like manner. It's not necessarily aggressive but it is communicative.
Human babies start to use their mouths to interact with their environment at a very young age. We then use disapproval and prevention to condition this behaviour out of them. How many times as a parent do we tell young kids to take things out of their mouths?
So. We feel as a species that we have moved on from such animalistic behaviour. We prevent it in our own young. We identify it as a social taboo.
That, I suspect, is why biting is perceived as worse than punching, kicking or headbutting.
Thanks for the response Ernie. A very good anthropological viewpoint.
Like I said originally biting is an age appropriate response. So we grow out of it. For whatever reason Suarez hasn't.
Biting is perceived as worse than the other things but it really isn't. They all mean loss of control and a violent reaction resulting in harm.
Depends how you are measuring it.
Objectively (if such a thing is possible) then you can look at the outcomes in terms of harm and rate biting alongside the other ways of inflicting damage on a person.
Sociologically biting is a greater taboo and is therefore worse.
Of course, any psychopaths reading this will just be puzzled as to why you are asking the question in the first place.
Biting would arguably cause less damage than a punch/headbutt/kick, direct infection aside. Sociologically it may well be perceived to be worse but not sure I agree with them.
It's a Friday night Ern. Any decent psychopath won't be sat at home reading this forum but will be out on the lash.
I think actually his teeth are that way as they got dislodged under the immense stress from all his biting.
Has he had help though? If he's done the same thing again then maybe he hasn't, or the help he has had has been ineffectual? Going on the response in Uruguay to what he's done, won't that just reinforce his behaviour, almost making it acceptable, he's being feted as a hero for biting somebody if you believe the media reports? I think Rogers is an intelligent man and will try and get full value from selling him as it seems to be that Suarez cannot control himself without proper constant help which he is either not going to get, or not going to participate in.
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He 'slipped'
No apology, no remorse, no contrition.
He 'slipped'
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They should have extended his ban and made him wear a headband with the words "I'm a massive bellend" on it for the next three years.
So they haven't upheld it, because the ban included no football related activities.
Unfuckingbelievable. Should have been extended by an extra 6 months at the very least.
But of course, because the Clasico just to happens to be the first game after his ban, they had to make sure he played so that they could make as much money as possible...