Do you think biting an opponent in the middle of a World Cup Soccer Match should be allowed?

Don’t play professional sports unless you are willing to sacrifice or harvest a body part or two.

There’s no justification for biting someone in sports. It’s stupid and completely uncalled for.

Nah, that’s just not sanitary.

Poor sportsmanship, sore loser-ish.

I’m not a fan of soccer. The only time I hear about it is when fans riot and cause trouble and the news reports about it, so biting an ear sounds like the norm.

this wouldn’t be allowed in the NFL or MLB. just sayin’

Like I said yesterday, Suarez is a dirty little cheat, even mentioned his teeth too.
He has previous form with biting, did it while playing in the Dutch league & again last season while playing for Liverpool.
His wife reportedly gave him a huge telling off, asking him why he behaves so out of character on the pitch & this was supposed to have reformed him, apparently not.
The worst aspect of his repeat offending is on each occassion he has bitten a player with little or no provocation & fell to the ground playing the victim, feigning injury.
Fifa are said to be investigating the incident & can & should take retrospective action against him, banned for however long Uruguay stay in the World Cup.
I’d like to think this was a foregone conclusion, but this being the corrupt body running the game…we shall see.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFq1stRrAY
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4aYvyEjX4U

^^ As I say, he has previous form

If boxing – the sport promoting physical infliction – doesn’t allow it, then why should soccer – the sport with no physical infiction involve – allow it?

So an in depth factual answer is the one to be left without acknowledgement…only on Fluther

It’s not the first time Suarez has done this. IMO he has some kind of mental health problem that needs addressing.

I suggest this fellow as his next professional coach.

Fifa have officially opened disciplinary proceedings against him & he has until 9pm today to respond.
The longest ban they can impose is 24 games, considering the 7 game ban he got for biting the Dutch player & the 10 game ban for the same offence against the Chelsea player, should be interesting to see if his bans continue to rise, should do.

I know why Suarez does this nonsense: he’s trying to get a reaction that will get the opponent to give up a penalty in the box. That doesn’t excuse this behavior at all. If anything, they should be cracking down on it much harder than they have been. In my opinion, he should be banned for the rest of the World Cup and all qualifiers for the next one, but as 24 games is the most he can get, I’ll have to settle for thinking he should get the max disciplinary action.

@ucme “I’d like to think this was a foregone conclusion, but this being the corrupt body running the game…we shall see.” The saddest part of this whole thing is how true this statement is.

@amujinx They can’t possibly let this go, Blatter & his cronies are not that crass to let this incident cloud their showpiece event.

Its been suggested that he may have done this to engineer a move away from his current club Liverpool, widely reported that he was after a move to either Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Liverpool were unwilling to sell & the theory goes that the subsequent negative press he’d receive off the back of this latest biting would give him the excuse he needs, probably knows that Liverpool would want rid now too.
I reckon he really is that devious, strange guy.

One of the reasons I’ll stick with motorsport.

Suarez banned for nine international matches & four months in total for all football related activity, including fine of 100,00 swiss francs.
So he plays no further part in this World Cup, but the first seven weeks of this ban there’s no football played anyway. Fairly lenient from fifa then, no surprise there.

I think the best punishment Liverpool could dish out to him would be to refuse to let him go AND refuse to let him play in the first team. Keep him on the bench or in the ‘B’ team.

He’s already losing his sponsorship deals too. That will hit him harder than any fine. I laughed.

Hell yeah! Extra points for creative placement of said bites.

I bet you guys all loved Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield’s ear lobe off.

Poor guy had to express his excitement some how. V….V