The 2014 World Cup thread

[Otta]

I want them to get rid, but that has just become a lot harder.

Do you people really think football is still an honourable gents game?

It's a nasty corrupt money fuelled entertainment industry. Why the hell would YOU be embarrassed? Like they care about you the little individual.

And you haven't remotely answered my issue with this by saying this is a third offence. It was not his third offence in a Liverpool shirt. His club paid for that offence, and he could still represent his country. Is it so hard to see why that is a bit shit on his club?

I have never claimed he is anything other than a mentalist. I just want the team I support to have the best chance they can next season, and that means he's available to play or be sold. We can sell, but only for a cut price now.

[Otta]

Still, Liverpool started pretty well last season without him, so fingers crossed...

[steveo]

Lots of biting in the scrum

And balls squeezing. Vinnie didn't invent that

[StraferJack]

Being a football fan is weird. We do know it's many of the things you say

But there are small pockets left of "the right thing"

Wenger offering sheffield utd a replay when kanu and over mars combined to score is the first example that popped into my head

Fowler telling a ref it wasn't a penalty

[Otta]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Wenger offering sheffield utd a replay when kanu

> and over mars combined to score is the first

> example that popped into my head

>

> Fowler telling a ref it wasn't a penalty

Both a loooooooooong time ago in football terms. Can you imagine a striker these days actually telling a ref it wasn't a penalty? Most of them are going to ground trying to win a penalty.

I'd love to see stuff like that, but can't imagine it at top level these days.

[Otta]

I know Suarez and the biting thing is "out there" and inexcusable, but what has basically bugged me the last couple of days is comments like "cheating scum" because when it comes to actual cheating, he's no worse than a ton of other players in the PL and all over the world.

Once again, the worst thing he has ever done for me is the hand ball in the last WC. Blatant cheat, and a pretty clever / cynical thing to do.

The biting is just bizarre, but at the end of the day, it didn't cost Italy anything the other night, they just lost.

[PokerTime]

I think FIFA have got it right. None of this is about Liverpool, or Uraguay per se. It's about the conduct of one man, Suarez, and the punishment has to be directed at him. If Liverpool are the club unlucky enough to have him on their books, then tough. Suarez is a liability when he behaves like that. FIFA are right to make everyone connected with him, realise the cost of that liability. Perhaps if he can't get employment because of his actions, it might just make the thug understand he isn't above the law. If he had done that on a street corner after a night out, he'd be up on an ABH charge and common assualt.

[maxxi]

Uruguay confirmed they are to appeal.

Does 'ban on all football related activity' mean he can't even play FIFA14 on his PS3?

Harsh.

[Otta]

"If he had done that on a street corner after a night out, he'd be up on an ABH charge and common assualt."

To be fair, it's more likely the person he'd done it to would be stamping on his head on said street.

[MrBen]

Good decision and about time more bans like this were made to preserve some integrity in football.

[Alan Medic]

Why don't they just make him wear a gumshield?

[MrBen]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Good decision and about time more bans like this

> were made to preserve some integrity in football.

Next due up - Sepp Blatter himself. He's put himself up for relection again - corrupt, deluded and vain, most of him reminds me of Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

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StraferJack Wrote:

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> Being a football fan is weird. We do know it's

> many of the things you say

>

> But there are small pockets left of "the right

> thing"

>

> Wenger offering sheffield utd a replay when kanu

> and over mars combined to score is the first

> example that popped into my head

>

> Fowler telling a ref it wasn't a penalty

Di Canio's 'catch'

[StraferJack]

Truly the years around the millennia were good times quids

[maxxi]

Phil Neville is melting.

[Otta]

Last word I'll say on this.

I think this ban will be an inconvenience to Suarez, he'll lose his chance to be the big star at this WC. In the long run his clever PR Team will probably make it work for him somehow.

For me Liverpool FC are the biggest losers as a result of it, and yes I feel they have been harshly punished for something completely out of their control after having kept him grounded for the season.

But I'll never convince most of you so fuck it.

Agree about Blatter MrBen.

[Otta]

At least City are the only decent team we play without him. And the derby.

[StraferJack]

Liverpool have gambled on Suarez and lost

They knew he did this before more than once and stuck by him

They knew he angled to get away last season and stuck by him

He was a big racist and they stuck by him

And with him they have won nothing. Liverpool fc hoped they would benefit from his skills. They haven't. Now they can choose to stick by him or let some other suckers deal with him

But as a club they are bigger than any single player and should be planning accordingly

[El Pibe]

He is a persistent cheat and people know that, hence the jubilation that there's some sort of comeuppance.

Plenty of others in the game I'm sure people would feel equally pleased about, no one's claiming he's unique.

Irony of course is that biting isn't actually cheating (though his feigned reaction was) , just plain wrong.

[Otta]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Liverpool fc hoped they would benefit from his skills. They haven't.

Are you fir real?

First time in the CL for a few years and mightyr close to the league. That's hardly not benefitting.

[StraferJack]

In the context of them not winning anything. Yes he isn't great player and Liverpool have benefitted. I could have worded it better

[StraferJack]

But net benefit?

[Annasfield]

Wow. The holier than thou attitude on here is brilliant.

And as for "He's a big racist" should have added "fat" for extra impact there.

Suarez is a nob and has been punished. I'll wait for the next 4-5 pages of outrage when another player does something controversial. Neymar's elbow last night? No comment.

[Otta]

Neymar in the first match come to that.

[El Pibe]

"holier than thou"

Given most of us haven't bitten anyone (at least without a safe word) since we were one, that's probably a safe attitude to assume.