FIFA World Cup 2014 - GROUP D [Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy - 14/19/20/24 June] **spoilers**

OK so it has all ended in a disaster for England, but in all honesty once the football season starts in August it'll all be forgotten and people well be raving about the best league in the world with so many international superstars.

We'll qualify for France 2016, 24 teams in that tournament now, you got to be a complete basket case to not qualify for that (aka Scotland), but will anything change.

NO
 
Moses said:
And he will be punished. But the question is whether or not it's any worse than clearly intentional elbows or two-footed challenges.
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In a meeting before the first ever UFC event the founder stood and announced "There is no biting. We are men not animals." then sat down.

In a sport where head butts, strikes to the groin and repeatedly stomping on your opponent's head were all perfectly legal the only rules were no biting and no eye gouging.
 
Trusty said:
Hahaha..not telling you who i play for and what not. I'm not an idiot. I don't claim to know everything, remember i was defending Moyes, the awesome job he did at Everton was apparently not even factor in your view. Your the arm chair know it all slating your own players week in, week out. Pathetic really. Mourinho lives and breathes football, you dont, you just admitted that. He's an exception. If you come out with sly little remarks at me about the 'cracking job Moyes did', i'll defend myself. You started it bro...:o
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Bit ignorant to say people know more about the subject just because they play professionally. I only know one professional player personally and although he was very professional about his job since the age of ten I won't say he was a fountain of knowledge for all football.

Most footballers come off as pretty dim, some even are so low down in the chain that they use biting to show their feelings :D

I would say most managers would use tv and computers to do most of their strategies anyway. I guess that makes even fergie, wenger and co arm chair managers. But being a professional football play you would know more about that than I would.

What league do you play in? My friend got as far as Portsmouth when Harry was in charge but never quite made it as a regular first starter. He's dropped down a few leagues since, as he's 31. But still playing.
 
I'm not saying that though, it was just Gimp with his sly remarks that made me curious as to how much football he'd played and at what level. I've learnt so much from listening to people who don't play football but just go to the games.
You can learn anything from anyone if you have open ears, everyone usually has some bit of knowledge which you can take away with you whether it's football or not.

Like i said before, i'm not saying what league i play in, it'll change peoples view of me, i want raw views.
 
I hope he gets a two year ban, and I hope the FA is looking at this with a view to banning him domestically too.
 
Trusty said:
I'm not saying that though, it was just Gimp with his sly remarks that made me curious as to how much football he'd played and at what level. I've learnt so much from listening to people who don't play football but just go to the games.
You can learn anything from anyone if you have open ears, everyone usually has some bit of knowledge which you can take away with you whether it's football or not.

Like i said before, i'm not saying what league i play in, it'll change peoples view of me, i want raw views.
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There was no sly remarks, I was quite open in telling you that you talk ****.

Peoples views of you won't change because you play football at any level. Peoples views of you are because what you write down as your opinion.

You accused me of being an arm chair fan, without actually knowing what an arm chair fan is, for reference purposes, it is someone that doesn't attend games and sits at home watching on TV.

Not someone that doesn't play football.
 
G|mp said:
There was no sly remarks, I was quite open in telling you that you talk ****.

Peoples views of you won't change because you play football at any level. Peoples views of you are because what you write down as your opinion.

You accused me of being an arm chair fan, without actually knowing what an arm chair fan is, for reference purposes, it is someone that doesn't attend games and sits at home watching on TV.

Not someone that doesn't play football.
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+1

For the record however much I dislike suarez and would love to see him get a year or two ban I think a 15-20 game is more in line with what I would expect. However I imagine whatever he gets will be reduced on appeal.
 
IT may be a blessing in disguise for Rogers, on one hand he can get rid and blame it on the fact that he doesn't want that sort at the club. Or he can put an arm round him and instill an us against the world mentality with Suarez.

Win/win situation.
 
Moses said:
Why would the FA ban him? Obviously they'd enforce a ban handed down by FIFA, but why would they initiate their own disciplinary process?!
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Because, for the third time - and despite prior sanction from the FA - he's bitten someone in a football match? The guy is not fit to play in any league.
 
Mr Jack said:
Because, for the third time - and despite prior sanction from the FA - he's bitten someone in a football match? The guy is not fit to play in any league.
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Third time is the key. Being such a serial offender, you'd have to wonder if people are in their rights to say they do not wish to play against him.

Biting someone off the pitch would almost certainly be a prison stint. It's absolutely abhorrent.
 
Moses said:
How is this in the FA's jurisdiction, though? It's for FIFA to deal with, Shirley?
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I'm not sure whether the FA's rules will allow it to engage with the situation but, in my view, it's entirely appropriate for the ruling body of a sport to respond to extreme bad behaviour on the sporting field whether or not that behaviour occurred during a game held under their auspices. Since Suarez currently plays in the UK it is appropriate for the FA to consider whether he should be allowed to do so.

In fact, I think that the various FAs should agree an international code so that a player banned from the sport in one country or level of the sport for this kind of behaviour can be banned from all countries and all levels of competitive football.
 
Moses said:
FIFA's the ruling body. It's their competition, and they're the highest authority.
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FIFA runs the world cup, yes, but they rarely give domestic penalties. That is left to the individual FAs; look, if FIFA come back with a penalty banning Saurez from the domestic game all's good but if they don't the FA should look at implementing it's own ban.

FIFA is the FAs, essentially!
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No, it's not. It's a quite separate organisation.

And they do have a mechanism whereby a ban in one place can be transferred anywhere else, etc.
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Ah, okay, I thought there wasn't one in place. My bad.
 
Moses, I agree with Mr Jack. UK parliament isn't essentially the European Parliament just because we have MPs from the UK in the EU.
 
Yes and you are therefore suggesting that all the government's of the world and UN are the same thing, which they are not. Different governments have different laws and penalise offenders in different ways. Mr Jack is implying that should the UN want to penalise someone for an offense, it should be applicable in every country by every government, metaphorically speaking.
 
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