Think that he has played his final game in a Liverpool shirt. They backed him through the racism thing, but this surely is one incident too many.
Suarez sums up on so many levels what's wrong with modern footballers. Many, like him, are cowards. Plus, you don't even get an opposition "enforcer" to even things up either on the field or off it anymore. Damn sure someone like Jimmy Case or Terry Paine would have punched Suarez's lights out in the tunnel after the game. That may not be the "best way to handle it" but really, Suarez does these things because he gets away with it. If he got a got a good hiding afterwards, it might just stick in his head to stop being such a cowardly nasty ****. Liverpool won't do anything, Suarez is the only reason they are not in the relegation scrap. Clubs are more scared of players handing in transfer requests than they are bad publicity.
Wish you were right but tbh I doubt it. Suarez is there only realistic chance of getting top 4 any time soon they'll put up with a bit of bad publicity every now and then and take his 30 goals a season. Still think he'll be off not because liverpool want him gone though, hes far far to good to not be playing in the champions league.
Yep, he needs a kicking and if Carraghwr and Gerrard had anything about them they'd pull him aside and have a scouse word with him, but they won't.
I wonder what effect Suarez's teeth will have on the Premier League's position in the Respect Fair Play table? Any lingering chance of Saints qualifying for the Europa Cup will definitely have gone now, thank goodness.
He wouldn't, but that was another era where players were genuinely in awe & respectful of their managers and also where bad reputations would haunt you as a player. Now, players know that as long as they perform on the pitch, pretty much everything else is excused. Players have all the power, can engineer moves, have a team of agents/lawyers and simply live in their own bubble. We've had players proven guilty for racism, indecent assault, GBH, dangerous driving, attempted rape, drugs offences all forgiven and they keep on playing simply because clubs are too weak to turn down the chance to get a decent player on the pitch. Fans are at fault as well. Those who chant a scumbag player or managers name just because they score a goal or pick a winning team are absolving blame. Mind you, media lead the way in that regard.
If the FA stick to their own stupid rules, he won't be punished because the referee dealt with it at the time I expect he'll get a fairly hefty ban, but not what it should be (biting in rugby union is an 18 week ban, 24 if its a repeat offence), and that'll be the end of it. Anyone who thinks Liverpool will let him go because of this is dreaming. At least, in stark contrast to the racism stuff, both he and the club have been quick to apologise and accept responsibility.
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How many adult males would resort to biting if annoyed? I'm sure most would just shove the other person or hit out (if seriously annoyed). You would think this sort of behaviour would have been knocked out of him by his peers by about seven years of age. I didn't believe his theatrical limping after the event...I saw no deliberate action by the other player...no deliberate stamping for example. The annoying thing is that he could get player of the season...don't care how good he is, I hope few voted for him.
Although Rodgers in his initial interview, saying he hadn't seen it yet (when he didn't need to in my opinion, just accept what everyone between the final whistle and that interview would have told him), started to talk about marks in cheekbones and "other stuff" going on. For one awful moment it sound like excuses and mitigatin being presented. His second interview, when he allegedly still hadn't seen it, then stated to suggest no one is bigger than a club, etc.
What would you want if Suarez played for us. He's world class and wins games on his own but ............. Personally I think I'd want him to go.
Will probably be the cleanest result for Liverpool in the summer as Suarez "will be sold" which in reality means, "another club was going to buy him anyway because he wants to play in the Champions League". They'll get £30m-£35m for him anyway, so its a profit on the £23m they bought him for.
Leaving Suarez aside for a moment, here are a couple of incredible moments from Europe this weekend: [video=youtube;QE45oXBDk44]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE45oXBDk44[/video] [video=youtube;w7jeB94ksXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7jeB94ksXM[/video] I love Thiago Silva's expression of "how can it have been out if I scored?" but it did look like it was. Just makes the shot even more amazing!
Not a nutmeg, it goes around the striker's left leg, but still, I'd be having a word with him if I was his manager!
What a shame the ball was out. Lovely goal, but rightly disallowed. The other video was football achieving a poetry-in-motion level.
