Racism trial? Lying? Where is that garbage coming from? Didn't they just believe one version of events over another?
And 19 yellow cards in 100+ games is not huge no matter how you word it.
10 in 33 this season paints a very different picture to your 19 in 100+, and that factors in.
Lying, he came up with an entire list of things he did, he said in the trial that he pinched Evra's skin "in a jokey way" to make peace, and one of the MAIN reasons they decided not to believe Suarez's entire story is the video of him pinching Evra's skin and saying something, he clearly looked angry, and was very clearly NOT joking. He was coming up with excuses, I didn't call him n*****, I said something that is totally a nice thing to say where I come from, I didn't pinch his skin and say it again, I was yeah, errm, I was having a joke with Evra... with which pinching his skin was intergral, while I say things about his skin colour.... LOL.
The decided Suarez was lying for multiple reasons, not least his story changed several times and he made several poor excuses for why several of the things he did weren't bad. Whether they were lies or not isn't particularly relevant, the panel who decided he was guilty determined he was lying, and guilty of racially abusing another player several times, and you have to be utterly deluded to think that doesn't come into punishments when further problems come up.
As for the law, its a fundamental principle across the globe that punishments get worse the more "stuff" you do. America's third strike rule isn't uncommon across the planet, some other countries have almost the same thing, others follow it in principle without the specific rule.
You honestly, without simply trying to find excuses for Suarez, think three men, all found guilty of the same type of mugging, get the same sentence when one it was his first ever crime, another guy had mugged 10 people before, and the third guy has done 20 years in jail for murder. You HONESTLY think they'll all get the same sentence?
Even Rodgers has banged on about a TWELVE game ban being fair, just with 6 suspended, because he thinks the FA's job is rehabilitation, not punishment. Yeah, rehabilitation would be the FA's job if he was in their custody for the ban, its not, its Liverpool's job to as Rodger's put it "put the carrot infront of Suarez". Firstly Suarez has had suspended bans before and still done ludicrous things, so suspended bans clearly don't mean **** to Suarez, secondly its up to Liverpool to change Suarez, if they can be arsed, not the FA, thirdly, this is now his third major ban in 3 years, smaller bans DID NOT WORK, suspended bans DID NOT WORK, pretty big bans DID NOT WORK, the only option left was an even bigger ban, anyone that can't see that is so utterly blind its embarrassing.
Every single other incident where the player has done something so completely unacceptable, the club has come out, said its unacceptable and banned the player, Liverpool came out, said, yeah, it wasn't great, but we believe its only worth a 3 match ban, oh, and we'll fine him a bit, but we're not going to ban him. We've done nothing to calm him down, we clearly condone his behaviour, and we think we're above the law so 3 match ban it is please.........
Once again Liverpool put the worse possible face on another disaster. Every time Suarez spends an entire game screaming at the ref, and you don't give him a fine... .stupid. Every time he goes around jumping in on players, stamping on ankles, diving, handballing through to the next cup round, and you do nothing to the player, you are saying "keep doing what you're doing". If at any stage LIverpool actually said to Suarez, "hey, stop being such a god damned **** ", maybe, just maybe he would never have done the bite.
