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Has Suarez done it again?

Hacker Khan said:
I must be the only person who thinks 'meh'.

It wasn't big or clever. But in the same game we saw an Italian go studs in to an Uruguayan's knee which could have caused him some severe damage. We see players from most nations feigning injury and rolling round like they've been shot.

Plus the ruling body is either spectacularly incompetent in that they would award it's major football tournament to a country the size of East Anglia with no footballing tradition in which players could feasibly do themselves severe damage, may be even die, if the matches are played there when the tournament usually takes place. Or they are corrupt. And they are more than happy to try and play the race card, accusing the British press of being racist for exposing their corruption, but then have a very poor track record of tackling racism at football grounds, especially in parts of Europe.

So in the grand scheme of what is wrong with football, some chap with issues biting someone is nothing I can get too worked up about. I'd much rather see FIFA reconstituted than Suarez being banned.
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You cannot be serious (it is wimbledon afterall)..You are actually condoning him biting an opponent,and making a comparison to a studs up tackle..So if your kids (if you have any),play the game, and one gets bit,and the kid doing it says i saw it on TV, you would think it is ok, and not get to worked up about it eh???
 
Rumpokid said:
You cannot be serious (it is wimbledon afterall)..You are actually condoning him biting an opponent,and making a comparison to a studs up tackle..So if your kids (if you have any),play the game, and one gets bit,and the kid doing it says i saw it on TV, you would think it is ok, and not get to worked up about it eh???
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Not quite sure I condoned it, as being more concerned about other things that are happening in football, or even not being that worked up about it, is different to condoning it. As I said, it was not big or clever. But I'd be more upset if another kid broke my kids leg doing a deliberate studs up tackle.

And people need to credit kids with some common sense. In reality, how many kids of football playing age will go and bite someone on the football pitch just because Suarez did it?? The vast majority of kids know right from wrong, and those that don't probably won't need any reassurance from Suarez to do something like that anyway.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Not quite sure I condoned it, as being more concerned about other things that are happening in football, or even not being that worked up about it, is different to condoning it. As I said, it was not big or clever. But I'd be more upset if another kid broke my kids leg doing a deliberate studs up tackle.

And people need to credit kids with some common sense. In reality, how many kids of football playing age will go and bite someone on the football pitch just because Suarez did it?? The vast majority of kids know right from wrong, and those that don't probably won't need any reassurance from Suarez to do something like that anyway.
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Its not just the possible copying of the biting though is it? Its the you can do anything you want and get away with it message/attitude which should more importantly be stamped out.
 
Birchy said:
Its not just the possible copying of the biting though is it? Its the you can do anything you want and get away with it message/attitude which should more importantly be stamped out.
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I think in football that ship sailed a long time ago....
 
I've only just watched the incident - and whilst I often despair at the hyperbole and over-reaction to incidents in football - this is simply unacceptable. It's not the worse thing that can be done by one human to another, or indeed one player to another - it is simply reprehensible and not acceptable. I find it sad - the guy has an instability that is going to wreck his career and that will 'dog' him for life.

Should he be sacked? Well by any definition what he has done is gross misconduct. Should he get banned? Again - the best of nurses can get struck off by the NMC for actions less hurtful to others but that are deemed to be gross misconduct. That's life. But still - my over-riding feeling is actually one of sadness for the guy.
 
Qwerty said:
Come on SILH, I never had you down as one of the Fishermen on here. Thats a big boilie you've just cast out.
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I agree with him.... the guy has the potential to be one of the best ever to have graced the game but has a character flaw (as do all genius) which will essentially ruin him.

I feel sad for the fella too....what a gift to waste.
 
adam6177 said:
I agree with him.... the guy has the potential to be one of the best ever to have graced the game but has a character flaw (as do all genius) which will essentially ruin him.

I feel sad for the fella too....what a gift to waste.
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Sadly a word very much over used. Especially in football.

He's no genius in my book.
 
Gareth said:
Sadly a word very much over used. Especially in football.

He's no genius in my book.
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He is in mine!


It doesn't mean he doesn't have a character flaw!

I saw him play a couple of weeks before the season end and, mmmmmmmmm, I'd pay to watch him play football every day of the week. I sincerely hope though that he gets a long enough ban that stops him acting the way he does.
 
As a footballer he is a genius - truely world class player up there with the best around at the moment

As a person - the opposite
 
chrisd said:
He is in mine!


It doesn't mean he doesn't have a character flaw!

I saw him play a couple of weeks before the season end and, mmmmmmmmm, I'd pay to watch him play football every day of the week. I sincerely hope though that he gets a long enough ban that stops him acting the way he does.
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True.

George Best had his character flaws, but they for the large part stayed off the pitch. He was a footballing genius.

When you look at Suarez as a player, he's no better than some of the high end players in the game at the minute. He's certainly up there with them, but that doesn't make him a footballing genius.

Being world class doesn't make him footballing genius.
 
Gareth said:
True.

George Best had his character flaws, but they for the large part stayed off the pitch. He was a footballing genius.

When you look at Suarez as a player, he's no better than some of the high end players in the game at the minute. He's certainly up there with them, but that doesn't make him a footballing genius.

Being world class doesn't make him footballing genius.
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George Best was probably, for me, the best player ever but I think Suarez is a world class player and there abouts level at the moment with Messi and Ronaldo and they, to me, in a really competitive football world are geniuses but I do accept it's a matter of opinion
 
chrisd said:
George Best was probably, for me, the best player ever but I think Suarez is a world class player and there abouts level at the moment with Messi and Ronaldo and they, to me, in a really competitive football world are geniuses but I do accept it's a matter of opinion
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I suppose what I'm getting at is just because someone is considered world class, it doesn't automatically make them a footballing genius.

To do so kind of detracts from the likes of Best and others IMHO.

But enough side tracking :mad:
 
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