Lopan, seriously, wtf
handball in the box has a punishment : penalty and red card. if the ghana player is to bad to convert it, wel his fault!
Cassano vs suarez ? oh cmon, cassano creates trouble, suarez just ventilates his anger on the field in an odd way. he doesnt cause turmoil in the dressing room.
Biting > elbowing a fractured jaw or breaking a leg, or tearing tendons
The problem with your argument there, Zach, is that a fractured jaw or broken leg or torn tendons can happen from sheer misfortune when a strong tackle is made and two players are in motion, both going for the ball. Its nonsense to suggest that a bite can happen as part of the game, as its nonsense to suggest that any injuries caused by strong tackles mixed with misfortune are in the same league as a bite. The impish moron looked like Blanka from streetfighter 2...
To bite another player is nothing to do with anything but vicious spite. It cannot happen part and parcel of an attempt at a legitimate tackle. It is spiteful and vicious, plain and simple.
Some supporters retain a long-held affection for and pride in Lo Stile Juve. Perhaps you do not. As many fans do not. Regardless its part of the DNA of the club. Its part of our global prestige and history. And its something I admire and enjoy and wish to see and feel remain part of the club. In the cut-throat modern world of football, its important for clubs to retain their integrity, their values, their dignity. We have dragged through the shitswamp by the media, the FIGC, enough mud has been thrown at us to make some stick for many supporters...the last thing we need, just as we are moving in the Right direction, is to sign a racist, spiteful, moron.
Can you see Marchisio sharing a joke with Suarez at half time...after the spiteful moron has helped to get Balotelli sent off in a grudge match against Milan.
"well done, Luis...that was brilliant mate...what did you say to him to make him spit in your face and try to throttle you??" Claudio quips with glee as he pats the uruguayan on the shoulders...
Smiling that winning smile, Luis responds...
"I told him his mother was born in the jungle and he was a black bastard so I will kick him and didnt want to speak with him cos i dont speak to blacks!!!"
Claudio, welling up with appreciation, respect, reverence...
"truly, Luis, you are going to join the Juve hall of fame...your picture will be on the wall along side Tardelli...and Zoff..and Vialli...and Conte...how amazing...what do you have planned for the second half..." with excited, eager to learn more eyes...
shrugging his shoulders, as if to suggest that such brilliance comes naturally to him, Luis ponders a few options then clicks his fingers and lays out his winning hand of aces..
"Well...there arent any blacks left in the Milan side on field, so I must improvise...I'm thinking I will bite Flamini, get sent off then take a bow towards buerlesconi and galliani as I leave the field clapping and the fans roaring my name"
now blushing, like a bashful teenager...claudio cannot contain himself.
"Oh luis!!!!! thats amazing..let me tell Buffon and Conte and Pirlo...they will love this!!!!".
That kind of scene wouldn't happen.
I also don't see any of our players making that handball against Ghana...other than perhaps Vidal. Who I suspect would understand that it was unsporting. And be strongly reprimanded by Conte, told NEVER to do such a thing in our colours and to never do such a thing for his country again for he brings shame to our club.
I wonder...with some of the comments and strong support I see for signing Suarez if many of you know the club's history. If you know Conte as a player, as a man, as a manager. He is so incredibly focused on Honour and Dignity. He epitomizes Righteousness.
For me it comes to Class. And my own perceptions of the huge differences between Montero going in for a challenge strongly and aggressively, winning the ball but hurting the player...and Suarez biting another player. One is part of the game. One is the spiteful actions of a moron who can't control himself.
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Certain moves which are nothing to do with football, not ever remotely a challenge, by any stretch of the imagination, deserve far more severe punishment than anything remotely perceivable as part of the game.
Cantona kicking that idiot in the chest 8 months???...Di Canio pushing the ref over...11 matches??...Duncan Ferguson headbutt...Jail sentence!
And liverpool have the nerve, the gaul...to say they are shocked at a 10 game ban for biting an opponent.
I read off Rooney above. I don't think he has ever bitten another player. Lashed out a few times when younger, but they were small fry compared to a bite and the other bullshit Suarez has muddying his past. Petulance is different from moronic spite. Robben was the same when we played Munich...for me, and probably some others, the differences between headbutts and bites on one hand, kicks and hacks on the other, are clear and obvious. To others...not so clear. Which is fair enough.
I just would be disgusted with Juve if they behaved as Liverpool did during the racism charge, and again now...a lack of class all round.
Conte would never play such a player again. He'd be gone in the next transfer window. Precisely because Lo Stile Juve means something to Conte. Its in his DNA...