Poll: Suarez has to be banned for a year at least

The the ban fair?

  • Scouser: Fair

    Votes: 11 3.0%

  • Other: Fair

    Votes: 64 17.4%

  • Scouser: Too lenient

    Votes: 7 1.9%

  • Other: Too lenient

    Votes: 228 62.0%

  • Scouser: Too harsh

    Votes: 13 3.5%

  • Other: Too harsh

    Votes: 22 6.0%

  • manyoo fans: derp

    Votes: 23 6.3%
  • Total voters
    368
inogen said:
There's "universal outrage" because outrage sells. And I'm not really trying to deflect from it. Suarez is an idiot. A serial idiot. Like a lot of footballers. Just a bit different.

We're wallowing in outrage here though, we can't get enough of it. Fair enough like. But I'm not having any of it actually being fair or logical. It's a witch hunt plain as day.

It's English machismo - it's ok to butt, punch, kick someone, to REALLY hurt them. But not ok to bite, spit at or pull someone's hair.

I'm really not sure the rest of the World sees things in quite the same idiosyncratic way.
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No, you're lying to try and make your point, it is NOT okay to butt, NOT okay to punch and NOT okay to kick someone.

You're saying something stupid and incorrect in an attempt to make a bite seem like it's being treated differently, it's not. A manager got an unprecedented ban for touching foreheads in a gay loving way rather than a violent hurtful way, Pepe got a red card and (3 game?) ban for another head touching incident. So are headbutts ignored, no, not at all so don't say it because it's stupid, they get bans even when there isn't a butt, just a head rubbing.

An Arsenal player got, iirc, something like a 9 game ban for a punch back in the 90's, at no stage has it been okay to punch someone on the pitch, and no stage has it been okay to kick someone on the pitch.

When a ref doesn't see an incident properly and doesn't give the suitable punishment... there is outrage on the forums over such incidents, they aren't ever ignored.

You're over and over again using the lack of outrage at this incidents to make the outrage at the bite seem worse... but again your premise that we don't take headbutts, punches and kicks seriously is a complete fallacy you made up to try and make your argument hold some weight.

The multitude of bans for headbutts, bans for kicks/punches show your are talking utter garbage and the reaction on here to Pardew's headbutt, the FA banning him, the reaction to Ramires's stamps and the red card he received when he did it..... stop saying something so patently false to try and tell people that a bite is being reacted to worse than anything else, it's not.

I did like your little list though, because Suarez has bitten, spit at and pulled players hair, as well as committed the worst tackle I've seen, dived, cheated, hand balled, kicked multiple players, stamped on ankles, cheated, used racial slurs.
 
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Looks like he had a good hard chump!!
Pathetic little racist thug, ban him with the MAX 2 years imho.

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[TW]Sponge;26508004 said:
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.
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This. He's scum, and we don't need people like that playing football. He'll just keep doing it...
 
drunkenmaster said:
No, you're lying to try and make your point, it is NOT okay to butt, NOT okay to punch and NOT okay to kick someone.

You're saying something stupid and incorrect in an attempt to make a bite seem like it's being treated differently, it's not. A manager got an unprecedented ban for touching foreheads in a gay loving way rather than a violent hurtful way, Pepe got a red card and (3 game?) ban for another head touching incident. So are headbutts ignored, no, not at all so don't say it because it's stupid.

An Arsenal player got, iirc, something like a 9 game ban for a punch back in the 90's, at no stage has it been okay to punch someone on the pitch, and no stage has it been okay to kick someone on the pitch.

When a ref doesn't see an incident properly and doesn't give the suitable punishment... there is outrage on the forums over such incidents, they aren't ever ignored.

You're over and over again using the lack of outrage at this incidents to make the outrage at the bite seem worse... but again your premise that we don't take headbutts, punches and kicks seriously is a complete fallacy you made up to try and make your argument hold some weight.

The multitude of bans for headbutts, bans and kicks show your are talking utter garbage and the reaction on here to Pardew's headbutt, the FA banning him, the reaction to Ramires's stamps and the red card he received when he did it..... stop saying something so patently false to try and tell people that a bite is being reacted to worse than anything else, it's not.
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So has anyone called for any of these players / managers who repeatedly punch, kick and butt other people to get lifetime bans?
 
Purdy said:
Does look like a bird stood on Chillieni there :D

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Best angle yet
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Got the ball.

Slept on this one...trying to think like a neutral I think I'd be looking at a blanket ban but nothing like is being touted. 10 games maybe.

I do think incidents need to be reviewed on a game by game basis. I get tackles are part of the game and would be difficult to review however elbows, headbutts and spitting etc isn't. Elbowing someone to the head can cause so much damage yet players consistently get away with it. Van Persie and Neymar alone this world cup...
 
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inogen said:
There's "universal outrage" because outrage sells. And I'm not really trying to deflect from it. Suarez is an idiot. A serial idiot. Like a lot of footballers. Just a bit different.

We're wallowing in outrage here though, we can't get enough of it. Fair enough like. But I'm not having any of it actually being fair or logical. It's a witch hunt plain as day.

It's English machismo - it's ok to butt, punch, kick someone, to REALLY hurt them. But not ok to bite, spit at or pull someone's hair.

I'm really not sure the rest of the World sees things in quite the same idiosyncratic way.
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Eh, it made the front page from CNN, New York Times, LA Times, South China Post, BBC, Reuters and so forth...

I say the rest of the world sees it that way as well.
 
manic111 said:
I'm in no way condoning what he's done, but I still think the question stands regarding whether what he did is worse than what Keane did to Haaland.

The reasonable argument there is that Keane's ban was too short, but Fifa are not reasonable.
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Did Roy Keane not break Haalands leg three times in three years?

As far as I am aware he only didn't break it the once.
 
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