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Remember when West Ham released Carlton Cole, went looking for a striker, failed and then asked him to come back?

Can't muster any sympathy at all for the "But Miss, other boys..." angle at all. It's exactly the kind of punishment to be expected for biting someone, for the third time, in the middle of FIFA's flagship competition, with aggravating factors like zero remorse and trying to deceive the referee through feigning he was the victim. Not excessive, doesn't demonstrate any outrageous inconsistency, completely deserved, entirely his own fault. Malicious, calculated, devious, cowardly. Just like the person behind it. Increase it for the frivolous appeal, the sport is better off without him.

"I'll never go hungry again!"

Eye gouging used to be more common and was more tightly regulated as a result. But the very fact there's explicit regulations about it show it's at least a rugby related offence. There's no chapter on what constitutes an illegal bite, or the severity of different types of bites in the FIFA rulebook, because it's completely out of the scope of the game, in a way that I don't think eye gouging is - in that in rugby you're allowed to grab your opponent with your hand, and there are regulations relating to where and how you're allowed to grab them. A bad tackle might give a worse injury than a bite, but at least a tackle is a football thing, a bite is a bar room fight thing.

Bans handed out across the world have ranged from 3 weeks to 2 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-gouging_%28rugby_union%29

As an illegal offense that shouldn't happen, but does happen in rugby because you grapple with your opponent and there's the possibility of going too far in that respect. Considered serious in rugby, probably considered much more serious in cricket. There's clear rules for punishments for eye-gouging in the code of rugby, so even though it's an illegal act it's part of the sport in that respect.

what a load of shite I understand what he's saying. Bad tackles, elbows and head contact are illegal over-extentions of the normal contact within the game. Not that they aren't serious, but there's a gradient line going from a clean tackle, a free kick tackle, a card tackle, a red card tackle and an absolutely horrific tackle. The latter is not in any way acceptable, but it's a football foul, a kind of misconduct you may see on the football pitch. Imagine a hockey game where someone suddenly decides to launch a sliding tackle at someone running through on goal. That's going to get them one hell of a ban, isn't it? Even if it's not as bad as someone swinging a hockey stick and smacking you in the legs. And if you tripped someone up on the football pitch with a stick, you'd get a hell of a ban even if you did less damage than a robust tackle. Likewisef you go in two footed on your opponent during the Olympic table tennis semi-final. Smashing the ball at your opponents face might be seen as a minor infraction however, while if you picked up a ball you found on the pitch and stotted it off an opponent's head you'd probably get a ban, even though most people would take balls to the face all day rather than a reckless challenge.

I don't know how Liverpool, Suarez or Uruguay have the audacity to complain about anything. "I'm really mad with the bans I get when I bite people, they're disproportionate/too long/too far reaching" Stop fucking doing it then! "He wasn't playing for Liverpool at the time, why should they be punished?" Pistorious wasn't competing for South Africa when he shot his lass either, it doesn't mean they have to let him out so it doesn't unfairly impact on their medal hopes. Maybe if Liverpool had disciplined him internally for past indiscretions rather than throwing him a t-shirt party when he racially abused someone and blaming the media and the FA for his ban length last time he bit someone he might have been more inclined to learn his lesson? Blame your player for doing something stupid enough in a global competition to get a world ban from football. "But I'd rather be bitten in the shoulder than stamped on/elbowed/have my legs broken. This incident here shows it's disproportionate" I imagine many people would rather be spat on than take a yellow card challenge. I imagine most people would rather someone pissed on their chest while denying the holocaust than have their leg broken with a clumsy foot in. Funnily enough there's no precedent for what punishment you get when you sink your teeth into the third walking lunch of your career in the middle of a World Cup game. Thanks to Suarez we now know the answer. "It's just because of who he is!" To an extent, yes. It might have been viewed slightly more sympathetically if it was a moment of out-of-character madness, but it's perfectly within character. Followed by no contrite apology and pleas for forgiveness, but two fingers up at the game, "These things happen, the other player is a disgrace for making a meal of it, it's nothing." Or do the media and FIFA pick on Suarez because they don't like his haircut, or his star sign? This is the media that awarded him Football Writer's Player Of The Season like three weeks ago, aye? Maybe if there's a conspiracy against Suarez and Liverpool by those running the game he should stop doing stupid shit that makes it extremely easy for them to unfairly persecute him?

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/26/arsenal-set-to-make-bid-for-newcastle-united-full-back-mathieu-debuchy-4776994/

Lets hope they've paid it upfront, because if UK laws come in line with the rest of the world their business model would be illegal overnight.

Took me another few paragraphs before I realised this was reference to us not playing them till December, rather than not having a chance of beating them for the foreseeable future.

"Chainey, D’Amato & Shannon" Did they name their made up legal firms after lasses from their call centre?

What a bunch of malodorous cunts, shame we have to have them associated with the club.

They're only allowed to talk about it in the Group D thread in the WC forum. Nowt to do with Liverpool I was glad to see it doesn't matter that Suarez has bitten people three times because Alan Shearer stamped on someone.

Should have put this on

The Onion's profile of Suarez before the WC started http://www.theonion.com/articles/world-cup-players-to-watch,36267/#7

Is he also fucking thick? Didn't Dennis Wise nip people under the armpit when body checking them, still a horrible cunt, but you might get away with it. I mean just what? When you're that good at football, why just lash out in such a malicious way, when it's not even a tussle for the ball, just because it's someone lining up against you? Is this the same mentality that might make you shout racist stuff at people, just a festering, white hot hatred and anger, where in a split second you just want to hurt someone as much as you can?

I mean, fucking biting people. If you go in hard and foul people, at least you're just a dirty cunt. Who fucking bites people? Even in a stand up fight that's low. Is he a fucking toddler?

They have a match thread where it's being discussed, and it's hilarious. Some people saying there's no evidence, even saying the mark can't be Suarez' teeth because it's too small Must have been a ghost child.

Thread on RAWK immediately locked http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=314791.0

Literal quote from RAWK

Owait, it's something where you can put your face through and pretend to be Wayne Rooney. Form an orderly queue.

Sorry sight of some booze execs setting up some zany half time game where you have to kick a ball through a cardboard stand, obviously dreamed up back when they assumed there would be more than 20 people in the pub this afternoon.

Dammit, I had a sneaking suspicion it was an allusion.

It reads like Cameron's apology on Coulson, held in reserve subconsciously for months and finely honed for the inevitable day it was required If only someone had posted that quote last season.