Was the punishment given to Luis Suarez fair?

He should have been banned for longer. If it is a psychological/behavioural issue then its his and his clubs responsibility to get him help. But we're talking about Liverpool here, a club who backed him after he racially abused Evra so don't see them doing anything about it.

When Suarez was banned for his bite on Ivanovic the English FA gave him a domestic ban but did not have the authority to expand his ban beyond domestic level.
Now he has committed the same offence on the most important tournament on the world stage the power lays with FIFA and as the supposed custodians of the game their authority to act is clearly more expansive.
The key issues for me are whether his club should suffer his loss for domestic games in England and also what Liverpool will do about Suarez in the aftermath of all this.
I presume the hope of FIFA is that a ban from all football activity worldwide will teach him a lesson.
I also presume they took into account previous conduct by Suarez.
The response from the Uruguayan FA is a bit of a nonsense imo .

(26-06-2014 23:51 )whorelover Wrote:  He should have been banned for longer. If it is a psychological/behavioural issue then its his and his clubs responsibility to get him help. But we're talking about Liverpool here, a club who backed him after he racially abused Evra so don't see them doing anything about it.

Suarez will be backed til he ceases to become useful. just as United did with Cantona and Keane. football makes its own moral code and once a player is an asset there's basically none at all

(26-06-2014 23:28 )lancealot790 Wrote:  i would like to have seen a bigger fine, £66,000 is peanuts to him really.

I don't know why they need to fine him at all. Offences like this should be dealt with by bans, as FIFA have done. I don't know why they added the token fine.

For anyone not aware of what the punishment was exactly, Suarez has been suspended from all football activity for 4 months, starting immediately, meaning that he can't play again (or even enter a football stadium) until 26 October. In addition FIFA have banned him for 9 international matches and fined him 100,000 Swiss francs.

Too lenient.

I think he should have had the full two years or maybe even one year. The fine is peanuts to him and when he's back in November the season's still pretty fresh anyway. He'll still see most of the Premier League and Champions League seasons. OK so he'll miss the rest of the World Cup and the Copa America next year but this punishment is what I'd have expected for a second offence. A third biting offence is taking the piss - he definitely has mental issues and you have to wonder about the sanity of a guy whose first reaction is to bite someone. For this reason he should have been ordered to attend counselling sessions as part of the sanctions.

To be honest I think Liverpool would be better off selling him. It gets him off their hands and they cash in big time. The more he goes off he damages his club, his country and his own credibility. It's pretty much made his position in English football untenable - imagine the amount of piss taking he's going to face when he does come back to the season in November? What if he goes off on one and does it again when someone winds him up next season? Where the hell do you draw the line? John W Henry's still going to have to continue paying him a king's ransom while he's effectively no use to them for three or four months.

If it weren't so sad it would be funny. Get rid of this guy, enough's enough.

Will Suarez force a move out of England now? After all of Uruguay, even its President, claimed that not a lot happened and the disciplinary action was all caused by a hate campaign against Suarez started by the English media, surely there is no way Suarez would want to play in England now.

In 1994 South African rugby player Johan Le Roux bit the ear of New Zealand's Sean Fitzpatrick in an international rugby match. His punishment was an 18 month ban. Then there was the infamous Mike Tyson incident in boxing, when in 1997 he bit the ear of Evander Holyfield during a heavyweight title bout. He lost his license to box and had to wait 15 months to get it reinstated. Suarez has gotten off lightly.

(27-06-2014 01:03 )Roger Patterson Wrote:  In 1994 South African rugby player Johan Le Roux bit the ear of New Zealand's Sean Fitzpatrick in an international rugby match. His punishment was an 18 month ban. Then there was the infamous Mike Tyson incident in boxing, when in 1997 he bit the ear of Evander Holyfield during a heavyweight title bout. He lost his license to box and had to wait 15 months to get it reinstated. Suarez has gotten off lightly.

exactly! and hes done it 3 times yet people still want to defend him and this conspiracy about the english media want him out whats all that about? he got voted the football writers player of the year so they voted for him and the players did as well! its all his own doing!

Football is a business, there is no way Liverpool will condemn him, he is worth too much to them, remove him they have no team. Instead of sacking or selling him they will do everything to keep him. I fully expect to hear more crap about 'he needs professional help' which will absolve him from blame.

Face it if he was a stockport player who had racially abused another player he would have been banned for life just for that. Same with the severity of punishment for biting. But because we r talking about a 'superstar' who is a valuable commodity to club and league his punishments have been lenient.

Knowing the way football works this will all be spun into 'poor Luis he is persecuted and cannot help his troubles'. Liverpool will want him, as will the clubs he wants to go to.

I think the saddest part of it, is that the 3 men he has bit have not turned around and knocked him the fuck out... maybe then he would learn biting is bad

(27-06-2014 01:31 )Whynot Wrote:  I think the saddest part of it, is that the 3 men he has bit have not turned around and knocked him the fuck out... maybe then he would learn biting is bad

Sadly though in this PC world anyone taking the law into their own hands gets punished more harshly than the aggressor
Probably the best way to make him put an end to his bad habits though.