??? about the Andes? Matuidi should be punished too, but that has nothing to do with this thread either.
yeah, tell that to the player who had to be replaced due to his fault. Not mentioning how France got the benefit of not needing to worry any more over the replaced player, who was no longer going to be in the pitch. The proper punishment for Matuidi would've been a direct red card for his action. He got it very cheap. And after the game, he should get banned for as long time as Onazi takes to recover from his injury due to Matuidi's reckless foul
No, imho it is way too lenient. Incredibly enough Barca, one of the most beautiful clubs in the world, wants to sign that beast. At work we have a pool on how fast Suarez will bite another player and what his punishment will be. You can wait for it too happen but he, he is such a great player *sigh*
How much punishment will this other guy receive by FIFA authorithies, as he admits that he dived in his crucial match of round of 16 ? : http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/sorry-robben-apologises-diving-against-holland-4028733
Well, the most Robben could get is a retrospective yellow card that would be immediately wiped off due to the amnesty. Diving is only punishable by a booking.
He didn't dive for the 93rd minute penalty and he didn't get a penalty for his dive. Robben had 3 instances where he fell in the penalty area. 2 of them were a penalty Also I hate the implication that Suarez was punished because he is S American from some people. It's a dumb use of the race card
Didn't you notice the underlined 'he dived' in Rickdog's post ? For sure this is just as bad as biting and a sound argument in this topic. Blatant hypocrisy from FIFA/UEFA/pampered-Europeans (any combination goes) /sarcasm-off
you'd have needed to know that such a punt was on offer, but in hindsight 175/1 on suarez biting someone was damned easy money. and 167 people actually placed that bet. i doubt many would have a flutter on "dignity and self-respect" at like odds. i'm certainly not tempted.
Fans from outside of Europe seem to have an obsession with lambasting European teams and players. Get over the Matuidi thing, as that should not be made into a bigger issue than it was. It was nothing like what Alex Song or Suarez did. And the Robben diving? Notorious diver, no doubt. But let's cast a light on the Brazilians, who dive left and right. Robben was deserving of a penalty in the box; just because he finally got a penalty at an opportune moment doesn't mean people can cry foul or conspiracy.
The problem is, that if we are punishing Suarez, then lets punish all of the cheaters. It has been proven over and over again that Neymar (just to name one) dives and exaggerates. He should be punished as well then. Granted, the degree of the cheat is way lower than a bite, and it is not detrimental to the health of the other player, but it is still a cheat. So imo, either we punish all, or none.
We can not punish players according to the degree of injury. He did not commit an infraction that warranted a red card. Since there was obviously no intent to injure from his side, we should never ever consider the degree of injury as a basis for punishment.
I am all for the-punish-all-who-cheat Yañez. Numerous sports have implemented and use modern technology for immediate in-game reviews, 2nd opinion or whatever it is called. I doubt FIFA will catch up in the next 2 decades, slow and old as they are. I just would like to get rid of incoming with 2-legs, diving (yellow) and diving (red if inside the box). At the same time I hope the game remains physical and accept that some amount and kind of faults are and should be part of the game.
State leagues are televised. All state leagues. Even the ones where no club plays in any of the 4 national level divisions.
Eh? You are so nervous because of Suarez that you lost any capacity for logic pal. My medicine tastes good. Suarez was justly punished, and HOW MANY TIMES must I say that Rodrigo Paiva should be punished if found guilty? I agree he should be punished, what the hell are you and Rickdog complaining about? Your whole blah blah blah here is directed at me if i was defending stupid Rodrigo Paiva.
Except from the start i did Rodrigo Paiva should be punished, if proven guilty. How is that losing objectivity? No pal. I called you troll for posting unrelated stuff, all of them nonsensical and unrelated, and when questioned or proved wrong, instead of answering objectively, you Only posted more links which did not even would contradict what i said. And now you accuse me of losing objectivity, when it's you who clearly have not answered objectively nothing?
I am not supporting Suarez but I would recommend a harsher punishment for Juan Zuniga for that knee on Neymar over Suarez' bite. The knee is definitely more dangerous than the bite unless Suarez is actually a zombie or has a life threatening contagious disease. (If it is the latter, the case could potentially be attempted murder or something alongst those lines which removes it from the scope of FIFA) The punishment for biting an opponent on top of a 6 match ban max should be something like being forced to wear a mouth guard or mouth mask or something like that. The sheer embarrassment of such a punishment should force any player from thinking twice before biting an opponent. In the case of Suarez, he should wear the device covering his mouth for the rest of his playing career as three times is one too many times.
I think it is the fact that it was done THREE times now. How many times has Zuniga used his knee to hurt an opponent? If it is three times or more I would support him getting a harsher penalty.
that play was part of any game, too bad contact on the brazilean produced your comments. juan Z is not know for that behavior, the particular game you refer to had a referee way out line and with no discipline on mind, produced reckless plays like that