X in favor of a South American team on a call that went against Chiellini's favor? Who would have thought?
I hope Deneb's hard-on for the SA teams bursts and gets infected when the EU teams push them some SA shit in later in the tourney.
That being said, I agree with him on both accounts. It was an unfortunate/stupid/unlucky call it whatever you want incident with marchisio as I think he was just trying to win position there by turning around and pushing Perreira(?) off the ball. In the end, however, he didn't leave the ref much of a choice - justified RC for me.
As for the Suarez bite, that was a straight RC offense too and will hopefully result in at least a year-long ban due to previous history. Problem is it was something you would expect the ref and the linesmen to miss more often than not. That's the whole point of being a sneaky shithead like Suarez and go for the bite as opposed a kick, stomp, punch, butthead, etc (Pepe should be taking notes). And he's kind of perfected his craft by now, as well. On top of it being a sneaky and difficult to detect attempt for malicious contact, it's not something most refs would expect and look out for anyway, making it that much harder to see. And no ref can or should make a game-time call based on the word of a player even if said player still had his chastity belt intact and signed by the Pope himself.