OT- FIFA charging Suarez for biting
It's still mind-boggling to me that we are actually talking about a "biting" incident.
This dude actually BITES people. Unreal haha.
Once? OK...chalk it up to a fluke weirdness or some such. Twice? OK...what are you doing here? THREE times? Dude needs help. And he needs to be sidelined for an extended period of time.
For those of us who also follow the fine TV show "Justified" this whole biting rings a bell.
Timothy Olyphant plays Raylen Givens a US Marshal who has the tendency to get into situation where he has to shoot people. I couldn't find that scene on youtube but it is Season 1 Episode 1. Here is the quote taken from a NY Times review:
"After Givens shoots a man in that Florida hotel and then, upon being transferred to his home state of Kentucky, promptly shoots another, his new boss warns him that he might be getting a reputation. “Put it like this: If you was in the first grade, and you bit somebody every week, they’d start to think of you as a biter.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16justified.html
I'm afraid Luis Suarez is a "biter".
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It's been too long...lol
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And put Suarez' face over it.
Suarez was crafty, if he would have headbutted Chiellini he would have been tossed asap with a red card. So he snuck in a trademark bite, got no card, threw the Italians off their game, then used the insuining chaos to score the match winning goal and advance his nation into the Round of 16.
When Uruguay comes up with the needed funds to pay off FIFA and Suarez gets a fine and a slap on the wrist this just may be lauded as a brilliant tactical move on Luis's part.
Thats right it was Godin. The bite gets an assist in my book though.
I'll be annoyed if this turns out to be just an international ban. He needs to be suspended from club play for awhile, too.
Period.
...it's FIFA we're talking about here. This guy playing = more cash for them.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/uruguay-fa-claim-luis…
"That's a bold strategy, Cotton -- let's see if it pays off for them."
I don't see myself rooting for Uruguay in very many future competitions. Shame. They have a cool flag.
is any doubt it was intentional.
Well maybe he could say he thought he saw him get bitten by a snake and was trying to suck the venom out to save his life.
And FIFA is twiddling their thumbs.
Speaking of snakes, Suarez approached that guy's shoulder like a snake with its mouth unhinged.
I look at this and just have to shake my head. In a similar situation I can't imagine normal well adjusted humans ever getting to this point. I mean, I can think of about a hundred things I would do in this situation before biting another person would ever cross my mind.
You might be able to make up some to form some ridiculous excuse that people may buy if you did this once. Twice and you can see the person has no concept of human behavior. This clown did it three times, and biting isn't his only issue. He's been in trouble for for hurling racial insults at other players too. This guy should just be gone (it won't happen, but he should be).
Those assertions do make sense, if you've started from the implicit, insular assumption that the EPL IS world soccer and vice versa. (I think there was a grudging admission that La Liga might be part of the world too.) Precedents don't count unless they involve England--that was said over and over.
That was half the reason for my 25 comment (though for this half I should have used 30 or 35). Anyone old enough to remember Heysel and its aftermath probably has a different idea of the relative strengths of the big international federations and the English FA. The EPL is going to take its ball and go home? English clubs were banned from Europe for five years and life and soccer went on unchanged.
I think it's probably true that FIFA won't impose a club ban this time around, precisely because the situation is so unique. They seem to reserve extreme sanctions for matters where there are broader issues of deterrence in play. Match fixing, racism, threatening officials--they've made a point of wanting to stamp those out of the game. It would never occur to anyone that policies need to be in place to discourage biting. This is about one man's psychological problems; it's not about the sport. Really, the only response that would get to the heart of the matter is to get Suarez to a psychiatrist and I don't know that FIFA thnks they're the right party to force that issue.