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What they said about Luis Suarez before he admitted to diving

IS Liverpool’s charmless and talented Luis Suraez a cheat? Says Luis Saurez:

“I was accused of falling inside the box in a match and it’s true I did it that time, because we were drawing against Stoke at home and we needed anything to win it. But after that everybody jumped up to talk – the Stoke coach and the Everton coach … I understood that the name Suarez sells newspapers…

“The media make up a lot of things about me because they want to sell papers. I say to the media: You should talk more about football, not about other stuff.

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Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: Sports | Comment


Liverpool’s cheating Luis Suarez inspired by Team GB’s win-at-all-costs dive

THE papers are pretty unanimous: Luis Suarez is a cheat. The Liverpool striker is cheat who robbed “plucky” Mansfield Town of FA Cup glory in the third round, ripping the romance of the FA Cup to smithereens. “Caught red-handed,” said the Times. “You cheat!” thundered the Sun.Suarez handball KO’s Brave Stags.” But it’s not only foreign Suarez the papers hate. It’s football.

Not so long ago, Team GB were scooping Olympic medals in the Velodrome. In one race, the lads took men’s team sprint at London 2012. The Telegraph cheered:

Sir Chris Hoy and Great Britain’s team sprint squad claimed a glorious gold medal record in the men’s final tonight, breaking the world record in both the semi-final and then again in the final when they defeated France, posting an almost unbelievable time of 42.600sec.

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Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)


Of course Liverpool’s Luis Suarez is a cheat

IS Luis Suarez, Liverpool’s unlovely striker, a cheat? Let’s see what the experts say of the man who used a hand to set up his side’s crucial second goal against Mansfield Town in the FA Cup. Oh, the romance. The rules seem pretty obvious:

In Fifa’s Laws of the Game 2005, Law 12:

… a free-kick or penalty will be awarded if a player “handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)”.

A player is cautioned and shown the yellow card if he commits any of the following seven offences: • unsporting behaviour

What say the experts?

Premier League referee David Elleray:

“Referees look at two specifics – did the hand or arm go towards the ball or in a manner which would block the ball, or is the hand in a position where it would not normally be? The challenging decisions are if the defending player spreads their arms to make themselves bigger. If the ball hits the arm then the referee must decide whether this action was to deliberately block the ball or whether the player has raised their arms to protect themselves – especially if the ball is hit at speed.”

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Posted: 7th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (13)


Why don’t Liverpool’s youngsters ask Luis Suarez for advice?

UNLOVELY Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is talking to Liverpool’s official website about the club’s investment in youth:

The forward explained that the first-team players in the dressing room will make themselves available to advise their younger teammates, although they have yet to approach him. “Not really, maybe it’s because I don’t speak English or something.”

Yeah. Maybe.

Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Glen Johnson, Paul McGrath, Ron Atkinson, Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra star in a Racism Smack Down

GLEN Johnson, the Liverpool defender is talking to the Daily Mail where he is billed as “Liverpool’s only black first-team player“. That’s an odd thing to state, given that Liverpool is not a racist club, operating no colour bar to players nor fans.

It duly falls upon Johnson’s shoulders to be the spokesman for the entire black community (and where are those meetings held?).

Johnson was in the line up when unlovely Luis Suarez declined to shake the hand of Manchester United’s unlovely Patrice Evra.

Says Johnson:

“Evra was clever at Old Trafford,’ said Johnson, extending his hand directly towards me. ‘Because – I’m not being funny – but if I wanted to shake your hand I would stick it right out in front of me like that. But if my hand is down here, almost by my side, then it’s because I really don’t want to shake your hand.”

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Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment


Fenway’s New York Times and New England Sports Network say Liverpool and Suarez beat Manchester United

IN “Another Ugly Incident Mars Liverpool’s Good Name” Rob Hughes tells New York Times readers all about Luis Suarez, Liverpool’s individualistic striker who racially abused Patrice Evra and then refused to shake the Manchester United’s captain’s hand.

The New York Times’ parent company is a shareholder in Fenway.

Says Hughes:

If the Fenway Sports Group (FS is to be the responsible team owner in soccer that it has proved to be in baseball, it needs to get hold of Liverpool, its club in England’s Premier League, and repair its global image fast.

And not just that. The FSG owns the New England Sports Network (NESN). This is its report on the United – Liverpool match:

Luis Suarez Shows Strength of Character, Scores in Face of Adversity

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Posted: 12th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (4)


Patrice Evra and Luis Suarez: All the views on two unlikable spoilt brats

LIVERPOOL’S individual Luis Suarez refuses to shake the hand of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. The media delights. All the views:

Alex Ferguson (Manchester United manager): “I couldn’t believe it. I just couldn’t believe it. I had a chat with Patrice this morning and he said, ‘I’m going to shake his hand — I have nothing to be ashamed of, I want to keep my dignity’ and then Suarez refuses. He’s a disgrace to Liverpool Football Club. Some players should not be allowed to play for Liverpool again. With the history that club’s got and in a situation like today, he could have caused a riot. I was really disappointed in that guy. That was terrible what he did. It created a tension — the referee didn’t know what to do about it, it caught him off guard. It was a terrible start to the game and a terrible atmosphere it created.”

Not biased at all.

Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool manager):“I didn’t know he [Suarez] refused to shake his hand. It’s contrary to what I was told.”

Love is blind.

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Posted: 12th, February 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (4)


Liverpool’s Luis Suarez refuses Manchester United Evra’s hand – good (photos)

LIVERPOOL’S Luis Suarez has refused to shake the hand of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. Suarez the racial abuser or Evra the grass? Whose side are you on? The pundits will say this is not a good advert for football. But it is. It’s exposes the bite, bile and nastiness than lies beneath the shiny, SKY TV, corporate veneer of all big matches.

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Posted: 11th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment


Did Luis Suarez Gouge Scott Parker’s eye as Liverpool played Spurs? – photos

WHAT can Liverpool’s Luis Suarez do to change perceptions about him? Suarez was banned for using racial abusive language towards Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. Can Suarez move on? Can he become well known for something other than calling Evra a “negro”? Over to you Scott Parker..

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Posted: 8th, February 2012 | In: Sports | Comment


Luis Suarez is another Hillsborough – Liverpool fans might wonder

OVER in the Mirror, Simon Mullock produces a spot of prose that should have Liverpool fans scratching their heads or weeping:

Fighting for justice has become a way of life for Liverpool supporters. The quest to unearth the truth about the Hilborough tragedy has become part of Anfield’s rich tapestry over the past 23 years, of course. But in the three months since Manchester United last made the trip to Merseyside, another significant battle has been waged. The campaign to prove that Luis Suarez is not a racist.

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Posted: 30th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comment


Liverpool fan arrested for calling Manchester United’s Patrice Evra a monkey? Call the race police

AND so it came to pass that one man in the stands saw fit to grunt and make monkey noise towards Patrice Evra, the Manchester United captain. Yesterday, we asked why Liverpool fans booed Evra. Their reasons are many. Liverpool versus United in the FA Cup was the first meeting between the clubs since Liverpool’s Luis Suarez was found him guilty of racially abusing Evra.

Today we wonder why one fan made like a monkey. This seems to be racist abuse. Polcie are talking the matter over with the 59-year-old from North Wales.

Chief Superintendent Jon Ward said:

“We can confirm that specialist officers are reviewing match footage, as a result of a picture posted on Twitter. This matter is now under investigation by specialist hate crime detectives.”

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Posted: 29th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (23)


Did Wayne Bridge shop John Terry to the police? Race row gets Taiwanese animation treatment

THE Taiwan-based media group NMA has produced a Luis Suarez / Patrice Evra / John Terry / Anton Ferdinand animated racism video. The Taiwanese have a theory over who shopped John Terry to the police. Anyone at the News of the World ever seen Wayne Bridge’s phone records?

Posted: 9th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comment


Liverpool’s Luis Suarez gave us a moral education

ROD Liddle is a columnist paid to say controversial things to a deadline. This week, he uses his Sun column to defend Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in his row with Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. In a piece entitled: “I don’t like Suarez…but he’s the victim” Liddle calls Suarez a “gobby little cheat”. He then tells readers that Liverpool:

“…does not understand why…Evra himself has not been charged by the Football Association. By his own admission, he said something in Spanish to Suarez along the lines of “your sister’s vagina”. Or it could have been “Your sister IS a vagina. The records aren’t clear on this…”

Liddle reminds readers that Luis Suarez  does not have a sister.

Evra’s alleged verbal assault echoes that of Marco Materazzi, the Italian who provoked France’s Zinedine Zidane into headbutting him during the 2006 World Cup final. Materazzi made a sexual slur about Zidane’s sister. He wound up the other team’s best player. Italy won. As the Italian said:

“We both spoke and I wasn’t the first. I held his shirt but don’t you think it is a provocation to say that ‘if you want my shirt I will give it you afterwards’? I replied to Zidane that I would prefer his sister, that is true. I brought up his sister and that wasn’t a nice thing, that is true. Thankfully there are tens of footballers who could confirm that much worse things are said on the field.”

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Posted: 5th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (8)


The Liverpool Post defends racially abusive Luis Suarez badly

IS football so partisan that the only colour Liverpool’s Luis Suarez concerns himself with is red? Sure, the FA says he is guilty of racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, but Evra’s not a black man making a stand – he’s just a United player doing down The Reds.

In the Liverpool Post, Ben Thonley thought it was good idea to write:

Is it acceptable to smear Liverpool FC striker Luis Suarez’s reputation on the hunch of three men?

And his editor thought it wise to publish it:

IF you have neither the time nor inclination to read the Football Association’s hefty report on their investigation into the Luis Suarez/ Patrice Evra racism row, let me save you the trouble.

Go on:

After two months and 115-pages, the entire case came down to one man’s word against another’s.

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Posted: 3rd, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (11)


FA Evra Racism Report Saves Liverpool Player Luis Suarez’s Career

IS Liverpool’s Luis Suarez a racist? It might depend who you ask. Suarez has been found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Eva, the Manchester United player, on the “balance of probability“. In other words, not beyond reasonable doubt. Suárez has been banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 for racially abusing Evra.

Suarez says his language was nuanced. The finger Suarez gave to Fulham fans that earned him a one match ban was not so couched in an alien culture. He opted for a US hand gesture, not a South American one. Suarez is picking up the local culture the hard way. Maybe he’s just a slow learner?

The Football Association has published a 115-page report into the matter of Evra v Suarez.

Key parts are:

* In the match between Liverpool and United, Evra starts the verbals by insulting Suarez’s sister in Spanish.

* The entire conversation occurred in Spanish.

* FA Report: “After the referee Andre Marriner separated them, Mr Suarez said that he turned to Mr Evra and said, ‘Por que, negro?

* FA: “Mr Suarez said that he pinched Mr Evra’s skin in an attempt to defuse the situation. He also said that his use of the word ‘negro’ to address Mr Evra was conciliatory and friendly. We rejected that evidence.”

* Evra asked Suarez why he had kicked him. Suarez replied in Spanish: “Because you are black.” Evra invites Suarez to say it again, stating that he will “punch him”. Suarez said: “I don’t speak to blacks.” Evra replied: “Okay, now I think I’m going to punch you.” Suarez responded: “Dale, negro, negro, negro.”

The FA’s hired linguist expert translates this as: “Okay, blackie, blackie, blackie.”

* Suarez is alleged to have used the term “negro” seven times in around two minutes.

* Evra to the referee “Ref, ref, he just called me a fucking black.”

* FA: “He [Suarez] said that he used the word ‘negro’ at this point in the way that he did when he was growing up in Uruguay, that is as a friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown-skinned or even just black-haired. He [Suarez] said that he used it in the same way that he did when he spoke to Glen Johnson, the Liverpool player. He [Suarez] said in no way was the use of the word ‘negro’ intended to be offensive or to be racially offensive. It was intended as an attempt at conciliation.”

* Suarez: “I would refer to Glen Johnson as ‘negro’ in the same way that I might refer to Dirk Kuyt as ‘Blondie’ – because he has blond hair, or Andy Carroll as ‘Grandote’ – ‘Big Man’ – because he is very tall. Where I come from it is normal to refer to people in this way by reference to what they look like. There is no aggression in referring to somebody in this way and there is certainly no racial connotation.”

* FA: “Mr Suárez claimed it is used as a friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown skinned. Thus, it meant ‘Why, black?’ [In his own witness statement, Suárez added: “my wife calls me negro in an affectionate way.”

* The FA: “The first aggravating factor was the number of times Mr Suarez used the word ‘negro’ or ‘negros’. We have found that Mr Suarez used [them] seven times in his exchanges with Mr Evra. Whilst we recognised that the exchanges occurred over only a two-minute spell in the second half of the match, there were multiple uses of the insulting words by Mr Suarez. The second aggravating factor was what Mr Suarez said when using the insulting words. He did not simply use the word ‘negro’ to address Mr Evra. He did that, but he also said that he had kicked Mr Evra because he was black and that he did not talk to blacks. Even if Mr Suarez said these things in the heat of the moment without really meaning them, nevertheless this was more than just calling Mr Evra ‘negro’. According to the Spanish language experts, the uses would have been regarded as racially offensive in Uruguay.”

* Suarez said Evra called him “South American” in a derogatory. But FA commission said: “We found that Mr Evra did not use the words ‘South American’ when speaking to Mr Suarez.”

* After the match Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish told referee Marriner in reference to Evra, “Hasn’t he done this before?”

* FA: “Given the number of times that Mr Suarez used the word ‘negro’, his conduct is significantly more serious than a one-off use of a racially offensive term and amounts to an aggravating factor. In our judgment, Mr Suarez’s use of the term [negro] was not intended as an attempt at conciliation or to establish rapport; neither was it meant in a conciliatory and friendly way.”

* FA: “Mr Evra was a credible witness. He gave his evidence in a calm, composed and clear way. It was, for the most part, consistent, although both he and Mr Suarez were understandably unable to remember every detail of the exchanges between them. Mr Suarez’s evidence was unreliable in relation to matters of critical importance. It was, in part, inconsistent with the evidence, especially the video footage. For example, Mr Suarez said that he pinched Mr Evra’s skin in an attempt to defuse the situation. He also said that his use of the word ‘negro’ to address Mr Evra was conciliatory and friendly. We rejected that evidence. To describe his own behaviour in that way was unsustainable and simply incredible given that the players were engaged in an acrimonious argument. That this was put forward by Mr Suarez was surprising and seriously undermined the reliability of his evidence on other matters. There were also inconsistencies between his accounts given at different times as to what happened.”

THE FA SAVES SUREZ:

* The FA: “This case is not about whether Mr Suarez is in fact a racist. Indeed, the commission will no doubt conclude that there are some indications that he is not.”

* FA: “Mr Evra said in his evidence that he did not think Mr Suárez is a racist. Mr Suárez said in evidence that he will not use the word ‘negro’ on a football pitch in England in the future, and we believe that is his genuine and firm intention. He has in the past supported, and continues to support, a charitable project in South Africa designed to promote multi-racial football.”

So. Suarez learns the hard way. It’s just a shame that when he played for Groningen and Ajax in the Netherlands for four years no-one told him about attitudes to race in the UK.

Posted: 1st, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (10)


Daily Mail buries Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in hypocrisy

FOR a newspaper like the Daily Mail whose Steve Doughty said racism in football was no big deal, the decision to assassinate Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in print is weird. Suarez has been found guilty of using racist language towards the ears of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. (See here.) Liverpool and Suarez deny any wrongdoing.

Chris Wheeler adapts the Mail’s failed editorial policy to castigate Suarez:

Considering Luis Suarez had just received a seven-match ban and been branded the ‘Cannibal of Ajax’ when he moved to Anfield in January, Liverpool should perhaps have realised their new £22.8million signing might land himself in hot water sooner or later.

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Posted: 21st, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Black Luis Suarez’s career suicide: Liverpool star did racially abuse Man United’s Patrice Evra

LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez did racially abuse Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. The Uruguayan has been handed an eight match ban. The FA’s Independent Regulatory Commission have buried Suarez, who says he is innocent. He says the word “negro” is nuanced. It is merely observational.

That commission is made up of:

PAUL GOULDING QC (chairman): Lawyer and wualified FA coach.
BRIAN JONES: Chairman of Sheffield and Hallamshire FA.
DENIS SMITH: Ex-Stoke defender who has managed York, Sunderland and Oxford United.

The, alleged, key quotes  from Liverpool’s 1-1 with Manchester Untied are:

Evra: “Don’t touch me, you South American”

Suarez: “Porque, negro?”

Evra is booked. He shouts at the referee Marriner: “You’re only booking me because I’m black”

Suarez: “I called him something his team-mates call him and even they were surprised by his reaction”

Andre Marriner may care to contact his own lawyers. If Evra said that, it is despicable.  But it is the racism that end careers, not the perception of it. Is guilty then Suarez has committed career suicide.

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Posted: 20th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (10)


Liverpool’s Luis Suarez is innocent: ‘negro’ wasn’t in the contract

DID Liverpool’s Luis Suarez racially abuse Manchester United’s Patrice Evra? The three-man Independent Regulatory Commission looking into the thing has yet to make a ruling. Meanwhile, while the IRC charges by the hour, The Telegraph reports that Suárez admitted using the term “negro” to Evra once, but states that this was not racially motivated. You see, Suárez’s says his use of the word “negro” was meant in the same way that Evra called him a South American.

Henry Winter writes:

Suárez, who will admit using the word “negro” once, will argue that it is a descriptive expression, and not deemed offensive in his native Uruguay, and that it is similar to Dirk Kuyt getting called “blondie” by the South American players at Anfield.

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Posted: 16th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (3)


Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool: When Luis Suarez Met John Terry

THE endless media guff about Andre Villas-Boas being just like Jose Mourinho (well, they’re both Portugeezers; in tabloid-land that means they’re practically identical twins) is ended. Chelsea have suffered their third defeat in four league games with a 2-1 home loss to Liverpool.

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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Sports | Comment