28 Dec 2011

SUAREZ BANNED? He deserved it. Take it on the chin and move on...

The FA has imposed an immediate one-match ban on Luis Suarez for his one-fingered salute to the Fulham crowd after the recent defeat at Craven Cottage. Is this a fair decision? Of course it is! Suarez was unambiguously guilty, and fans should (IMO) accept the decision with good grace.

I recently approached the FA for information on the rules relating to 'gestures', and received the following clarification:

"With regards to player-on-player gestures, the view is that generally speaking retrospective action is rarely likely to be appropriate.

"With Suarez's gesture towards the crowd, there was a potential of incitement and as such there is a responsibility of all participants to refrain from inflammatory actions which could lead to crowd problems.


Lets look at the facts:

* Suarez made a one-fingered gesture towards the Fulham crowd.

* He admitted making the gesture in his disciplinary hearing.

There's no defence: Suarez deserved the ban. End of story.

Hopefully, the victim complex that has been engulfing Liverpool this season will not rear its ugly head again here.



Jaimie Kanwar


25 comments:

  1. need big andy to step up against his former club...
    at least gerrard's back, him and suarez still havent played many games together...
    think they could be devastating together...

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  2. Stevie G's Hollywood long passes will suit Carroll, unless Dalglish still tries to fit square pegs in round holes with his players and tactics.

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  3. Well, Suarez has admitted the charge, and so has the club, and he is handed a 1 game ban. Could have been a 2 or 3 games ban. No one should be moaning about this one. The fact that some other players in the past were not banned for the same has nothing to do with us, it's a separate issue, and we can't defend Suarez's action based on someone else's poor behaviour. So yes, take it on the chin and move on. And be smarter in the future.

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  4. Is this how the England FA run things? No wonder England never get a chance to host the World Cup anymore. I wouldn.t "Kunkit" with any of these jerks. May be "Puki Mak" would do them a world of good.

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  5. i agee with ban just hope the fa ban anyone else doing the same sort of thing and dont be taken in by i was saying thats twice to the lino not putting two fingers up to the fans common sense has to come in,then everyone will take these bans on the chin,i cant remember but what happened to joey barton when he pulled his pants down and mooned

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  6. Completely agree Jaimie, but in the interest of fairness I would like the FA to be more consistent. There have been many recent similar recent instances from other Premiership and England players yet these have gone unpunished.

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  7. Good job he didn't use 2 fingers or it could of been a 2 game ban!

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  8. how is this different to rooney swearing? it should have been two games. I hope that people remember this when pointing out how the FA is owned by ferguson, or something similar

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  9. I remember Beckham running round West Hams ground waving 2 fingers at the supporters who insulted his wife when he was playing for Man Utd.Everyone including the FA came out in support of him and he was portrayed as the victim and nothing happened.Alls we want is consistency.suarez didnt direct the gesture to anyone in particular whereas Beckham ran round three quarters of the ground.Suarez is running on empty so maybe this ban will be at  a good time as he badly needs a rest with all the pahysical and mental demands hes had to endure.he is also emotionally drained and when he came off against Wigan i thought he was going to burst into tears due to him being portrayed as some evil monster around the world.

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  10. why not act the victim when player's from lfc get treated different than other player's 

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  11. Rooney's gesture was pretty much unprovoked! He didn't have the crowd abusing him and branding him as a racist for 90 mins... 

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  12. What year was that in? Or decade even? century (don't bite)?

    Bring up a recent example of a contradictory FA decision (which im sure there is plenty of), rather than some ancient

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  13. How is this different to Rooney swearing?  Rooney shouted obscenities to the camera, totally unprovoked. Millions of people around the world were watching the game and could see it, including women, children, monks and nuns.

    Suarez reacted by showing a gesture to the group of thugs who were shouting obscenities at him. That doesn't make him right or anything, but you can see the difference, can't you?

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  14. Because we are a great club, not some pityful drama queens. That's why. We have to behave with dignity, not like self-pitying sad c***s.

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  15. Ok, he wasn't branded as being racist by opposition crowd but he did get taunted by the West Ham over the use of prostitutes. So yes, he got provoked but certainly no excuse, just like Suarez has no excuse.

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  16. his comment is no less valid no matter when the incident he details took place. If a black player responded to chants from BM boneheads do you think the FA would be looking to punish or exonerate  ? VOTE NOW

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  17. no it was two games because he put two fingers up and got away with it then he started swearing for england and got away with that

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  18. He did use a racial slur just as Rooney used prostitutes. So they pretty much brought it upon themselves.

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  19. He and rafa can meet up and share their sorrows.

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  20. Suarez's ban is justified this time but FA's decision to charge the club for failing to control the players prove that FA have an agenda with Liverpool because i have seen worse reactions from Man Utd players and Chelsea players in similar circumstances where no action has been taken by FA.

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  21. Like Gerrard got away with the v-sign swear

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  22. FA standards/stance might have been different a decade, a century ago, whereas a more recent example would make such a excuse to be far less credible. 

    So no, validity waffle doesn't cut the mustard. What next? something from the 70s/80s too?

    'no less valid', my backside

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  23. maybe it meant something less offensive in his home town lol

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  24. Players do have an excuse they are being provoked by crowds that are worse then the hooligan crowds of the 70s and 80s because they should know better and are the first to cry foul when the players do something back!

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  25. you mean, getting off with a lesser ban than Wayne rooney.

    Being called a cheat quite frankly is something that suarez is going to have to get used to, since the handball against ghana made him the most high profile cheat in world football outside of Thierry Henry.  Rooney was banned for two games for swearing at the people at home. Suarez was 'swearing' at the crowd who were actually there. How is it any different? Liverpool fans should get used to the fact that suarez is a bit of a mess in the head, and quite frankly a bit of a disgrace. You should hope that you get most of your money  back for him to buy a replacement, because one goal in three and the worst shots to goals ratio of any goalscorer in the premiership, simply isn't enough to justify all the bullshit that goes with having him around

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