Zombie James
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So conspiracy theorists say he is actually trying to bite Gerrard here.
This is just getting creepy now.
Luis Suarez the football vampire has bitten another player [Update: BANNED]
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This is just getting creepy now.
Nah mate, should've been 6 months and 3 weeks and 5 days and 4 hrs and 36 minutes and 4 seconds. Get some perspective. People have gotten less for punching referees.
bonesmccoy
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When are the results of the appeal supposed to be announced?
Psychotext
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Evenbillybob
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NinjaFridge
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You never had someone you love nibble on your ear?
GoldenEye 007
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lol at anyone defending this scumbag. He's a disgrace and should have been permabanned.
What a shithead.
What a shithead.
It's okay because it was penalized by the rule of the sport. Ghana got just compensation.
B-but the world is full of rapists and hungry kids from africa with cancer, FIfa should be focusing on that!
No need for that, plenty of people seem to think the punishment was too harsh, including the person that was bitten.
Psychotext
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Chiellini was just doing the smart thing and getting himself out of the firing line of the rabid fans. Plenty of them blame him for what happened (as ridiculous as that is) and he's been very sensible indeed in getting them off his back.
Yup, thread needs to disappear already.
They are also banned from football, AFAIK.
TyrantGuardian
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I don't care about football at all, but looking at this from the outside I just have no clue why this person hasn't been permanently banned from participating in the official sport. Like, he's physically assaulting other players, how is that ok in a sport that has literally nothing to do with violence?
He's pretty good at it and probably sells a lot of merch.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Because as this thread demonstrates you get completely delusional people who argue against that.
Broder Salsa
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I thought it was only one journalist, who did this #InnocentSuarez thing.
Agreed. It was just so perfect that it was him of all people, you can even see the other player on the line next to Suarez, clearly trying to handball it as well. If it's cheating them so is professional fouls and so on, I'm fine with that being called cheating too though, but can't have one without the other.
Agreed. It was just so perfect that it was him of all people, you can even see the other player on the line next to Suarez, clearly trying to handball it as well. If it's cheating them so is professional fouls and so on, I'm fine with that being called cheating too though, but can't have one without the other.
Steve Youngblood
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Leave Suarez alone!
No not really, things are ok till the burn him alive crowd shows up.
Steve Youngblood
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I don't think that's what's happening. Some people are suggesting he should be permanently banned from the game. Now, I'm not saying that should happen. However, it's hard for me to see that as an absurd suggestion given his rap sheet.
GrandHarrier
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Out of curiosity, how is this not treated as assault?
GoldenEye 007
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Regarding the handball rule. It's just a symptom of a deficient rule. When an obvious goal is prevented illegally like that, it should count. Just like a goaltending in the NBA.
That takes out the incentive to be a dumbass and actually fully punishes the team committing the infraction. Being able to prevent the goal with the only result of forcing the attacking team to have to attempt another one kind of stacks things in favor of the defenders. It would be like the NBA forcing the offense to take free throws due to the defense committing a goaltending infraction.
That takes out the incentive to be a dumbass and actually fully punishes the team committing the infraction. Being able to prevent the goal with the only result of forcing the attacking team to have to attempt another one kind of stacks things in favor of the defenders. It would be like the NBA forcing the offense to take free throws due to the defense committing a goaltending infraction.
lastflowers
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So conspiracy theorists say he is actually trying to bite Gerrard here.
does anyone actually think this? I can't tell from some of the reactions here....
Liverpool fan.
John Dunbar
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it really doesn't. this was an extremely rare case (i am not aware of anything similar happening before or since). in pretty much all cases red + penalty massively stacks the play in favour of the attackers.
ThLunarian
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In any normal job, if you bite a coworker, you get fired and charged with assault. It boggles my mind that athletes are able to get away with garbage like this and come away with a slap on the wrist.
GoldenEye 007
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If done early enough maybe. At the end? It makes little difference with the numbers.
I'm even ok with a goal awarded + yellow. Much more incentive to not commit the foul.
Good call.
because these things happens in the box.
This makes a lot of sense, which is exactly why it will never be implemented.
From what I've seen in this sport, goals are hard to come by and when spectators come to the matches they also want to be a part of every goal. Spectators are a huge part of the game, and when they can't physically see a goal I think that takes something away from the sport. That's where I think FIFA are different from the American leagues, they favour excitement and controversy over fairness.
Yep. Yep. Yep.
Psychotext
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I wish this was fake:
Yeah, you can say what you want about the incident, but the drama it created with the missed penalty, suarez celebrating, then the penalty shoot out. We wouldn't have had any of that if it was just awarded a goal. That world cup would have been a lot less memorable.
Obviously Ghana won't feel the same way about it...
Must be.I wish this was fake:
Circle Jerk
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Man this entire thing has made me feel so disappointed in Uruguay. Celebrating the return of such a piece of shit is just sad.
The bite is ridiculous, and I have no issues with the ban lenght by itself, I do have issues when comparing it with other aggression which are, in my eyes, worst.
I honestly find a (purposely) elbowing to the face worst than a bite, it's a lot more dangerous than a bite to the shoulder, it's just happens to "normal" and less flashy.
And yeah, this is his third bite, but we also have cases of players who did aggression multiple times (Pepe comes to mind) who don't get bans this long for multiple aggression.
If we want to keep this type of behavior out of football, we need to have heavy bans to any kind of purposed physical aggression that might endanger the opponents, not short-mid bans to elbow to the face (or none at all such as Neymar hitting Modric in the face in the first WC game) and then heavy bans to the flashy, but less dangerous, ones.
I honestly find a (purposely) elbowing to the face worst than a bite, it's a lot more dangerous than a bite to the shoulder, it's just happens to "normal" and less flashy.
And yeah, this is his third bite, but we also have cases of players who did aggression multiple times (Pepe comes to mind) who don't get bans this long for multiple aggression.
If we want to keep this type of behavior out of football, we need to have heavy bans to any kind of purposed physical aggression that might endanger the opponents, not short-mid bans to elbow to the face (or none at all such as Neymar hitting Modric in the face in the first WC game) and then heavy bans to the flashy, but less dangerous, ones.
LFMartins86
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It´s not, it´s real.
Psychotext
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Just in case there's any doubt, here's the BBC story on his statement: Luis Suarez bite: 'I lost my balance and fell on Chiellini'
While I agree that elbows, high tackles and headbutts are far more dangerous, biting is just so bizarre and childish that it has to carry a higher penalty.
Honestly, if he just went full on Zizu and smacked the shit out of Chiellini for shit talking I would be okay with it.
But to bite someone for a third time and then act as if you've been wronged on the pitch and then flat out lie about what we're all looking at is absurd.
Deaf Spacker
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I've just read that, what a tool.
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