Why is Luis Suarez being charged with assault?

[FiveTimes]

Anyway joking aside, rather than banning him maybe they should mandate anger management for 6 months.

This is exactly what Liverpool did last season - anger management before and after games.

So only ban him from matches where the team he's playing for would be affected? That's unrealistic. You could argue it's as much Liverpool's fault as Uruguay's for not 'beating it out of him'.

How can Liverpool be a it out of him ? He's hard wired and Liverpool did "control" him last year, however when he went on international duty they lose the chance to keep up his therapy.

[FiveTimes]

I also can't take much more of the BBC pundits sticking their oar in, Shearer and Savage were as dirty as they come in their day, bloody hypocrites.

Shearer got away with kicking someone in the head because the spineless FA didnt want to lose him for the upcoming tournament.

Savage was a decent player but his game revolved around winding players up

[original PM]

I think it just the whole biting thing

young kids bite when frustrated - but then they grow out of it and just start to punch or kick...

he has some serious problems.

lol!

[tractor]

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This is exactly what Liverpool did last season - anger management before and after games.



How can Liverpool be a it out of him ? He's hard wired and Liverpool did "control" him last year, however when he went on international duty they lose the chance to keep up his therapy.

Send the twat to the dentist, hold him down while he has his gnashers extracted, problem solved!!

He doesn't need teeth to eat pasta and chicken and anywho it can be liquidised (that's what you normally do for babies)

[TheBigD]

On the TV pictures the referee refused to even look at the Italian player's shoulder; that seems to me to be seriously irresponsible. Does the referee have no duty of care to the players?

Ban the cannibal, suspend and replace the ref and replay the match.

What good would looking at a mark on the players shoulder do if the ref didn't see what happened? If he didn't see Suarez bite him, then there's not much he can do.

His club, sorry, football company, chose to employ a man with a track record of biting people. That's their own business risk. Ban him for good.

When they signed him, he'd done it once. I'm not condoning his actions but it doesn't constitute a track record.

The ref didn't see it, so couldn't do anything about it. That's why FIFA are able to review it after the game. The ban should of been harsher, maybe 12 months from all football and a bigger fine, but not a lifetime ban. As people have said, there's much more violent acts that happen on the pitch that by and large go unpunished.

[BoredBloke]

I think he should have got a longer ban. Cantona was banned for yonks for kicking a scrote. The length of the ban was pretty fair because his actions were well over the top but it was something he did once and once only. Ferdinand got an 8 month ban for missing a single drugs test. Suarez gets 4 months for biting a fellow professional....the third time he's been caught doing this. The bulk of this 4 month ban is in the close season.

[Doggy Styles]

Uruguay teams have a track record of behaving like animals on the pitch. It's their mentality.

You'll find most of that country think Suarez was treated very harshly, or even that he didn't do anything wrong. It seems that it's the fault of the Italian who was bitten for complaining, and the English.

His grandmother complained that FIFA treated him "like a dog". There's irony there.

[northernladuk]

Although biting is bizarre, it is very minor compared to a leg breaking tackle. Charging him with assault is the right way to go as it is nothing to do with the game.

True but leg breaking tackles are not always deliberate. Some are like Cantona's lunge years ago but many are in the heat of the game. If you watch all of his bites there is a pause were he re-adjusts and then goes in for the bite. He has to make a concious effort to make the bite which is more serious. The guy, in my mind, has issues. If his brain is switching in to some automatic mode when he does this he won't stop.

Back the assault thing. There was an article on BBC sport about what would happen if he got charged comparing it to biting someone in the street. The lawyer interviewed said for a third offence he might get a short but suspended sentence and some community service. His football ban is much more severe and would be more likely to make him think than a criminal case so probably not in the public interest really.