FA publishes reasons for Suarez ban...
"The Commisson did not take into account that no further action was taken against Jermain Defoe in 2006, and instead used the case of Brighton's Ashley Barnes, banned for a total of seven games for tripping up a referee, to judge the length of Suarez's ban."
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"But when these were read in conjunction with Mr Suarez's denial of the standard punishment that would otherwise apply for violent conduct is clearly insufficient, it seemed to us that Mr Suarez has not fully appreciated the gravity and seriousness of this truly exceptional incident.''
Like I said... arbitrary. You don't use a similar offense by which to gauge punishment, although that is somewhat understandable... you don't use some other incident related to violent conduct, but instead use an incident involving a player and a referee. Makes no sense. The kicker is that they insist that this biting incident is "truly exceptional" completely ignoring the fact that it has happened in the PL before... the irony of them overlooking the DeFoe situation apparently being lost on them.
They are not overlooking the DeFoe incident, htey handled it the only way they could. If in the history of the league, whether it be the PL or going back to the days of First Division, it has only happened no more than 3 times or so, I would say that gives it some degree of "exceptionalability" so please stop trying to defend suarez and vilify the FA to the nth degree. He got off lightly just for being the prick that he is....something you should be able to identify with from some aspect or another.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/6076094.stmThe Football Association will take no action against Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe over the biting incident in Sunday's game with West Ham.
Defoe seemed to bite the arm of Javier Mascherano after he was fouled by the midfielder, with both players booked by referee Steve Bennett.
An FA spokesman said: "We are unable to take any action because the referee has already dealt with the incident.
"Fifa regulations prevent us from taking retrospective action All this talk about how suarez need help and pepe reina cryin' 'bout how dey bias because he from Uruguay....steuwps....de man come wit all he baggage, biting man in Holland and butting referee as a youth...he come here and like to dive and he does get away with a lot of antagonistic behaviour towards opponents....he need a good steven gerrard or jamie carragher-on-nani style kick in his teeth.
It woulda be nice to hear people offer up the same explanations that Balotelli "needs help" with all the immature shit he was and continues to be so vilified for doing but liverpool and dey desperate ass in dire need of his football genius.
I wouldn't be surprised if Liverpool/Suarez appeal, and succeed in having it reduced.
well, surprise, surprise! It's a good thing for him that he eh listening to no jackass but he has real intelligent lawyers and advisors that knew better than to advise him to appeal. All things considered, including his non-biting past, it is his best course of action to be contrite and work towards repairing his image.