Beware before you criticise Suarez,
To get a sense of just how protective they are towards
Luis Suarez in his native
Uruguay consider the case of Ricardo Gabito, an investigative journalist in that country.
He was shot in December 2003 at the behest of a local underage football official after reporting an attempt to pressure a referee into changing his report of a match in which the then 16-year-old Suarez head-butted the referee after being sent off.
Gabito recalled the incident to reporter Wright Thompson for a fine ESPN piece recently but went on to add that Suarez is now his favourite player.
Nobody suggests that the Liverpool striker had the slightest bit of responsibility for the shooting, just the head-butt, but Gabito might be expected to be a less supportive of a player whose actions gave rise to such remarkable consequences. Not a bit of it, he says. The Uruguayan reporter says he came from the same sort of poverty as the striker and understands the desperate fear of a reversal in fortunes. Irish Times.
But apparently Suarez never headbutted the ref but fell into him with his head. Seems like he is always losing his balance and falling over.