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| Suarez is the Premier League's answer to Dracula |
When I first saw this on Twitter (as I wasn't actually paying any attention what so ever to the match) I couldn't actually believe it had happened. But when I was listening I did then hear the commentators talk about it on Super Sunday. This came as a bit of a shock having not followed Suarez's career before joining Liverpool. I knew he was a vivacious character (if you want to look at it that way) but still wouldn't have seen this coming. However the story was only going to become more shocking and odd as the days progressed. After the match the same old manager technique happened as Brenden Rodgers tried (and failed) to point out something that a Chelsea player had done that had been worse than the Suarez incident and he managed to point one out, even though it was clearly not as bad as biting a fellow player like your a vampire. This continued with the Chelsea elbow incident however with Rafa Benitez "not seeing it" (make your own judgement) Souness and Redknapp (both ex Liverpool players and for good reasons proud of it) both slagged Suarez for what he had just done. When watching Sky Sports News later that night, it seemed the fans outside the ground thought he had done nothing wrong, well the minority did, most were able to come to their senses and see how bad a thing this was. After coming in from school on Tuesday, I turned on Sky Sports News and saw that Suarez had been banned for 10 games, in my opinion this was a good decision by the FA and finally shows that they do actually have the balls to take action where action is needed after it looked like they were incapable of this after the Callum McManamman incident in the Wigan vs Newcastle game. Liverpool unsurprisingly had something to say about the issue saying that he deserved a ban, just not that long a ban, it almost seems like they don't know fully how they feel. The FA have made an example of him and that is exactly what they should have done. This means that he has been banned for 18 games in his time in England for these extreme cases. We all remember the Evra racism incident. Liverpool and Suarez can argue all they want but in my opinion this ban is fair and I hope to god that the FA don't make a fool of themselves and back down to Liverpool who seem scared to not back Suarez in the risk of losing him
Though this isn't the full story. As Suarez did the exact same thing whilst playing for Ajax bit Otman Bakkel in 2010, even though the referee didn't see the incident according to the Dutch FA, he still got an 7 match ban.
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