Luis Suarez Suspended 9 matches
FIFA has come down on Suarez this morning, to the tune of nine matches plus for months from all football activitiy. Does this 4 month ban include his club time? Not very clear as of yet, but it seems like this is a pretty fair punishment.
BREAKING: FIFA says Luis Suarez is suspended for nine matches plus four months from all football activity.
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) June 26, 2014
EDIT: The four month ban does include his club time at Liverpool.
EDIT 2: As user SCS100 points out, this is a 9 match ban from FIFA World Cup games, meaning there is a strong chance he's out for the next WC as well. for a 27 year old, he might have just played his last match for Uruguay in the WC
but it's Liverpool FC that he is under contract with and it was Liverpool FC who he was playing for when the SECOND biting infraction occurred. He was also playing for Liverpool when he proved what a racist dingbat he was.
In short, the fact that he still hasn't received the help he needs to get over his porpensity for biting probably lies more with the team for which he is under contract than a team he plays with a couple of times per year. In truth, the blame should be entirely his own but there will always be the question as to what Liverpool did to keep this from happeneing after he committed his second offense.
This is just a bizarre situation and I'm not sure anything to do with it could possibly be straight forward or make much sense.
all of this past season without incident. Liverpool did everything they could.
but do you know that they did? I'm genuinely asking because I have no idea if they did anything. To further the point either they didn't do everything they could (as evidenced by this latest incident) or LS is beyond help....I don't know which it is but those seem like the only two options.
but what about a lifetime ban for his ridiculous post-bite flop pretending he was the one injured?