The club are already bleating about the length of ban. I'm not sure why as he's got previous and a lengthy ban. He and they should just suck it up.
Well the club haven't said anything and are awaiting the written verdict tomorrow accroding to a short statement on the website, but other than that correct, it was never going to be less than 7 as thats what he got in Holland! I'm getting sick of hearing about Luis Suarez in a negative light and don't have a problem with the ban; as someone who goes to matches its all we hear from many fans especially away from Anfield. And just when the last one was dying down - over which I had stated and obvious reservations, primarily about the way the decison was reached - he goes and does this.
Anyway, for those who follow and discuss football for football's sake, and not because they are just passing an opinion on the latest bandwagon, I
read this today by Martin Samuel. Normally anything Martin samuel says I'd automatically take the diametrically opposed point of view, but here he actually talks sense.
The piece is not about the Suarez ban, which at the time of writing he wouldn't have known the length of, but the way the FA grandstand when making their decisions. What he points out, amongst other things, is that in this latest Suarez case the FA are actually fortunate, from a making an example of him standpoint, that the referee Kevin Friend
did not see the incident because by their own rules they could not then have acted. Ironically on the day it would have been better for Chelsea if Friend had seen the incident and sent Suarez off because he went on to score the equaliser with the last move of the match. But for the FA it would have meant a 3 match ban for violent conduct, 'sorry nothing more we can do because we can't re-referee the game'.
Utter b0llo0cks. That rule does nothing to ensure that players get disciplined even handedly which is surely what should be happening. Its well documented that if 12 people see a car crash the police will get 12 slightly diferent variations on what happened beacuse human beings do not necessarily recall accurately everything they see even a few moments afterwards. So the FA's disciplinary process hinges on the randomness of whether a referee sees an incident and then whether he correctly assess the seriousness of it in the seconds after. Every incident should be able to be looked at in the same way without the 'did the ref see it factor'. That way all the random off the ball incidents like headbuts, sly kicks, bites etc, and all the OTT play related actions like two footed leaps, leg breaking lunges and such like can be dealt with in the proper way.