Poll: Suarez has to be banned for a year at least
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You're comparing something that was accidental to something that was deliberate, the latter being grossly condemned by FIFA (as per the previous 10 match ban)...
I have no doubt he will be banned for the rest of the World Cup, but it should be more severe.
Biting on the football pitch is very bizarre, and very unusual. It shows complete intent to harm (unlike many dangerous tackles) and is just, well... plain weird. A several month long global ban from FIFA is what I'd like to see, and what he deserves. I get the whole "violent conduct is violent conduct" argument, but you have to make an exception for a repeat offender of something like biting, in my opinion. Given his racism conviction (or whatever you want to call it), that hardly reflects well on his character.
The fact he's done it on such a global stage (even more so than the Premier League) won't help his cause either, FIFA will want to make an example out of him.
He certainly needs help as well, the red mist comes down and he loses control of himself. He doesn't seem a completely bad guy in interviews, but his behaviour says otherwise, madness at times.
Biting on the football pitch is very bizarre, and very unusual. It shows complete intent to harm (unlike many dangerous tackles) and is just, well... plain weird. A several month long global ban from FIFA is what I'd like to see, and what he deserves. I get the whole "violent conduct is violent conduct" argument, but you have to make an exception for a repeat offender of something like biting, in my opinion. Given his racism conviction (or whatever you want to call it), that hardly reflects well on his character.
The fact he's done it on such a global stage (even more so than the Premier League) won't help his cause either, FIFA will want to make an example out of him.
He certainly needs help as well, the red mist comes down and he loses control of himself. He doesn't seem a completely bad guy in interviews, but his behaviour says otherwise, madness at times.
With each successive time it happens you increase the length of the ban. This will remove him from the pitch so he can't do it. The lengths of the ban need to be exponential though as it doesn't seem to be working
To be fair using twitter and 'trending' as reason for anything is more idiotic here. Social media as an outlet for rage / mock outrage for the masses which snowballs as an effect. Does it mean that it should used in judgement for a punishment to be handed out? No.
If social media was around in in 1995 in the way it is now, how do you think the Holland assistant coach would be treated after what he did in 1995? Albeit it wasn't on the football pitch. http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/1995/04/16/605180780/?s=kph
Am I alone in being perplexed by the outrage?
Biting is bad but no worse than dangerous tackles in my mind. Bad challenges can end careers, bites will leave a bruise at worst. Yes it's undignified, and yes he should get a ban, but I don't see it as worse than other straight red card offences.
Biting is bad but no worse than dangerous tackles in my mind. Bad challenges can end careers, bites will leave a bruise at worst. Yes it's undignified, and yes he should get a ban, but I don't see it as worse than other straight red card offences.
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Genius? Yes.
How many times does he need to do it, before it's unacceptable? One.
Minimum of 6 month ban IMO.
The difference is Suarez has done it 3 times now and will do it again any punishment obviously doesn't deter him
Tackling and challenges are part of the game. It's a known quantity. It's accepted that in the course of events players are going to attempt to take the ball from each other with their feet, and sometimes that is going to be a bit on the reckless side and punished accordingly.
Where is biting supposed to fit into the rules?
I used it as a measure of the number of the people outraged by his behaviour... showing the dislike for such behaviour. FIFA will not want to be seen as condoning this, especially on the biggest football stage. Punishments need to be hard, end of.
Dangerous tackles are at the end of the day a tackle... A bite is a deliberate attempt to harm another player off the ball. A person conducting a dangerous tackle might have all the intent in the world to get the ball... A personal biting another player only has one objective... To harm said player.
So he is less likely to do it again because he is is in a club shirt, despite the fact that the first time he was proven to do it (@ Ajax) was at club level, and the second time when it was suspected vs Chelsea was also at club level
Dont believe either other case was THIRD time the player had done such immoral and unjust actions ( a headbutt is comparatively normal)
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My stance is..
Ask yourself; how many games would you expect for someone going in Keane-style (ending a career)? Now imagine that player did it another 2 or 3 times... Now what?
- Straight reds should remain at automatic 3 games
- Violent behaviour (including biting, serious injury with malicious intent) should be 10 games
- Repeat violent offences should be 6 month minimum
Ask yourself; how many games would you expect for someone going in Keane-style (ending a career)? Now imagine that player did it another 2 or 3 times... Now what?
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I can't believe some of the posts I'm reading, especially from Liverpool fans defending him.
Well, I can kind of understand the Liverpool fans as he's clearly the only decent asset you have to getting anywhere and he carries the team.
Imo he should be banned from football for life. He clearly has issues, and really bad issues at that. To be given a 10 match ban a year ago for the same thing, for him to go and do it again in the worlds biggest tournament is just completely idiotic and anybody who defends him after such a thing (again) is just as idiotic.
Well, I can kind of understand the Liverpool fans as he's clearly the only decent asset you have to getting anywhere and he carries the team.
Imo he should be banned from football for life. He clearly has issues, and really bad issues at that. To be given a 10 match ban a year ago for the same thing, for him to go and do it again in the worlds biggest tournament is just completely idiotic and anybody who defends him after such a thing (again) is just as idiotic.