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  2. I disagree with you, Bart. Regarding the fallout anyway. As you said, there is no place for this on the field. The difference between this and Martin Taylor's tackle on Eduardo (for example) is that one is a footballing incident and the other is not. Now and again, players are going to make poor tackles. There were two red cards in the Fulham vs. Arsenal game at the weekend for "high" tackles. I do feel though, that Giroud was terribly unlucky to be shown red, but rules are rules. Suarez however wasn't attempting to tackle Ivanovic, he simply took it upon himself to assault him. The thing that makes it worse is that it's not an isolated incident for Suarez. There is something wrong with him if he's resorting to biting players.

    I think the other incident you refer to is McManaman on Haidara (Wigan vs. Newcastle). He escaped punishment because the FA can't punish retrospectively if an official has seen the incident. Which begs the question, if the assistant saw it, why didn't he notify the referee?
  3. Which further begs the question as to why the FA don't change the rule around retrospective action. They are catching flack for not taking action on these players because they won't let themselves take action. Its just stupid. I get that they don't want to undermine referees but that isn't enough. If the ref blew the whistle after yesterdays bite and awarded a free kick because of a coming together (having not seen the bite) then Suarez would be untouchable.
  4. It's a FIFA ruling isn't it?
  5. I thought it was the FA. We already know Fifa are arseholes and that would make it more understandable. The game is in a bad way. It is all going to blow up somewhere.
  6. Originally posted by iTim:I disagree with you, Bart. Regarding the fallout anyway. As you said, there is no place for this on the field. The difference between this and Martin Taylor's tackle on Eduardo (for example) is that one is a footballing incident and the other is not. Now and again, players are going to make poor tackles. There were two red cards in the Fulham vs. Arsenal game at the weekend for "high" tackles. I do feel though, that Giroud was terribly unlucky to be shown red, but rules are rules. Suarez however wasn't attempting to tackle Ivanovic, he simply took it upon himself to assault him. The thing that makes it worse is that it's not an isolated incident for Suarez. There is something wrong with him if he's resorting to biting players.

    I think the other incident you refer to is McManaman on Haidara (Wigan vs. Newcastle). He escaped punishment because the FA can't punish retrospectively if an official has seen the incident. Which begs the question, if the assistant saw it, why didn't he notify the referee?

    if it's a football incident ok you could be right but not all the tackles are "incidents"
    (not only in England of course)


  7. Francisco Gallardo
  10. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    That's exactly the problem. The clubs (employers) are held to ransom by these players. It's ridiculous. How Joey Barton is in a job for example is insane. Liverpool can't do Nything here. They will have to fine him at very very least but assuming Suarez gets another ban how many games will that total through the racism case, red cards and now this?

    The game has just gone wild. I think I'll declare myself a non watcher from here on and just avoid getting annoyed at this nonsense.

    Thank god for cricket and MotoGP.



    what happens is that Suarez give Liverpool the chance to win a lot of money ... in your work if your work give to your boss the millions that Suarez give to Liverpool sure they 'll probably forgive you some things

    is not the same as a conventional work being an athlete ... it's hard to think of cold when you got the beats at 300
  12. Originally posted by patou2:[..]



    what happens is that Suarez give Liverpool the chance to win a lot of money ... in your work if your work give to your boss the millions that Suarez give to Liverpool sure they 'll probably forgive you some things

    is not the same as a conventional work being an athlete ... it's hard to think of cold when you got the beats at 300

    He hasn't won them anything but bad publicity recently and the American owners won't be too big on that. I hope he leaves the Premier League at the end of the season.
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