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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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Neiler said:
I'm awaiting the maddest reaction of all time from Sep Blatter, I really see FIFA bottling this! Make no mistake FIFA is run by its "partners"!
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Is the RSPCA a partner ......

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Fedlingen said:
Diego Lugano has defended his teammate:

"You saw this, really? You need to show me because I didn't see anything. Did you see it today or did you see what happened in other years?

"You couldn't have seen it today because nothing happened."

"The worst of everything is the attitude of Chiellini. He's a great player, with an enormous status it doesn't correspond with Italian football, a sportsmen leaving the field, crying and appealing against a rival.

"As a man he disappointed me totally. I had him a reference point."

Oh lord :Blink:
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No comment about Ramirez trying to pull down Chiellini's sleeve to cover the 'wound'.
 
Whilst perusing the various locked threads on RAWK, I noted this article (apologies if we have had it already, and apologies for the long read)

I also apologise for the sheer WTFness of the quote below:

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT had nothing to do with Suarez, but it does reveal the violence of the world that created him, and perhaps explains why nobody wanted to talk about the headbutt, because of everything that followed it. To hear the story, we called Ricardo Gabito, an investigative journalist.

A couple of days later, he walked across a downtown plaza and joined us at an outdoor café.

"The denunciation I made of Suarez's attack against a referee," he said, "ended with the shot they fired."

The bistro chair struggled to contain Gabito, an anvil of a man with the beginnings of a paunch and a fist of chest hair punching out his open collar. His legs pumped beneath the table. His dark eyebrows looked like fighting caterpillars. Since 1981, he'd worked for newspapers and television stations, chasing corruption. He's one of the only sports journalists willing to take on the corrupt side of Uruguayan soccer, whether it's drug traffickers who use player transfers to hide cocaine profits or crooked officials who want to pressure referees. The tales of corruption and narcos and midnight gunmen set the hook completely. I was deeply obsessed with the headbutt and all that followed.

Sitting across from me, Gabito told the story of Suarez, leaning in, animated and intense: During a 2003 match to decide a youth league championship, Larranaga gave Suarez a red card and then claimed Suarez assaulted him. The actual report disappeared, so nobody can prove what the referee actually alleged. Without Larranaga to separate fact from rumor, the whole incident remains trapped in hazy word of mouth, most details coming from the newspaper accounts that followed Gabito's shooting.

According to them, Spillman called Larranaga after the match, asking him to change his official match report to eliminate any mention of aggression by Suarez, wanting to protect the star player on his favorite team. Larranaga refused, and Spillman in a voice message called him a pimp and a motherf-----, threatening to end his career. Larranaga stuck up for himself and turned in his report unedited. Suarez received a long suspension. Sources at the football federation leaked information to Gabito, who ran his story on Dec. 11, 2003. More leads followed. He dug deeper on Spillman. On Dec. 21, just 10 days after the initial report, Gabito walked home from his television show. It was 11:15 at night. A strange car idled in front of his house.

Now, sitting at the table, Gabito looked around and grabbed the sugar container. That would be the car. Other bits of coffee paraphernalia represented him and his house, and here, at Café Tribunales, on a busy, urban square, he re-enacted his own assassination attempt.

Gabito got to his door and felt the hard barrel against his head. The hit man, forced into the job to settle a debt, changed his mind at the last minute. He wrapped his arm around Gabito's neck and shot him in the leg. The getaway car screeched off into the night, and, with blood pooling on the concrete, Gabito hailed a cab to the hospital. Four years later, walking down the street, he ran into the hit man. The would-be murderer asked, "Do you know who I am?"

Gabito said, "You're the one who shot me."

They parted ways, nothing left to say, another weird scene in the world of Uruguayan soccer. All three people involved in the shooting spent time behind bars, but all have been released. They've fared better than Gabito, who angered powerful interests one time too many. Fired at least twice over the years for refusing to print lies, he is now blackballed from the industry he loves. He hasn't had an investigation on television since 2011, and he hasn't had a byline since February 2013. He feels wronged, backed into a corner.

That's one reason his favorite player is Suarez.
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http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...nner-luis-suarez-soccer-most-beautiful-player
 
Jags..class said:
From RAWK
Of course it is - It's Luis Suarez.
Sorry chap, he laid the head in and missed. This, however put his mouth in contact with Chiellini and yes there may well be a mark there but it was not a bite, it was a headbutt went wrong. What his problem is, is that he went to lay the nut on him and missed. Of course in the context of the game, Chiellini will say it was a bite as they wanted him off the pitch which means Luis was a stupid [Poor language removed] for rising to the bait and putting himself in the position.
Sad thing is, the BBC's commentator (Savage?) went "E's bitten 'im" which of course will be the first reaction because of his (inexcusable) past exploits.
He's going to be [Poor language removed] I'm afraid and only has himself to blame for it, but I will stand by the fact that it's not a bite. Headbutt gone wrong - yes. Bite - no

Got to be a wind up
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Have they found out yet that it was Kilbane?
 

Fedlingen said:
Diego Lugano has defended his teammate:

"You saw this, really? You need to show me because I didn't see anything. Did you see it today or did you see what happened in other years?

"You couldn't have seen it today because nothing happened."

"The worst of everything is the attitude of Chiellini. He's a great player, with an enormous status it doesn't correspond with Italian football, a sportsmen leaving the field, crying and appealing against a rival.

"As a man he disappointed me totally. I had him a reference point."

Oh lord :Blink:
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Honestly think if no action is taken against Suarez then it'll turn me away from football for good.

If his teammates can say crap like that and he walks off with a poxy three match retrospective ban for international football then what is the point of giving a rat's arse about the game.
 
Quite brilliant article (was linked on here a few days ago). What we have to accept is that he felt that his world was being threatened - Uruguay were 10 minutes away from going out of the World Cup - and, as per usual, his heinous tactics worked - just as they did in the 2010 World Cup and all his snidy dives and kicks work - so it's really about time that something proper was done about him.

Ideally he has to really pay for this - if it means he sits out a year of football then too bad. If it means Liverpool get less money for him then too bad (transfer fees are not part of FIFA's remit to worry about such things) - if it means they have to pay his wages for a year too bad or more fool them if his contract has no reference to such things - they probably won't if he's been banned by an outside agent rather than our FA means he gets to pay the price. Set an example that really means FIFA intends to show RESPECT. Nothing to do with his club - it's a matter for FIFA to sort out. Taking him out of International matches isn't going to hurt him - he's on £220K a week for heavens sake and sod all squared for international games. That's going to hurt him in his pocket.
 
I think it will be at least a 3match ban. They might not take into account much the past behaviour, but if he got 10 games that would be great
 

mawders said:
I think it will be at least a 3match ban. They might not take into account much the past behaviour, but if he got 10 games that would be great
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Trouble is it will be 10 international games so won't matter to RS as they won't be able to sell him now and he can play for them.

We want a 6 month worldwide ban.
 
He left his head there, and kinda came back to it from the evidence.

The first game Rickie Lambert starts without Suarez in the lineup will be all sorts of LOL.
 

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