Re: **Official Other Teams & Games Thread, Season 2012/13**
Who am I to judge who plays football? I'm a football fan - the whole reason the sport exists.
You seem intent on trivialising Suarez's misconduct as if it's just the odd incident from which no harm comes - if that's the case you clearly haven't seen much of him playing over the last few years. Football has never been pure or fair, but it was a lot more above board. I have no issue with a player who's a bit of a pussy - like Ronaldo or Bale, neither do I have an issue with a player being tough and physical - like Skrtel (sp?) or De Jong. I do have an issue with players who go down like a sack of brick when there's no contact, scream and harass the ref, wave imaginary cards for the whole match, ball-out their teammates when they fvck up, put snidey kicks and digs into opponents (remember the kick on Parker?), intentionally handball off the line then celebrate like they just scored a wonder goal and racially abuse other players.
That's not niggles, that's something being entirely wrong with how he goes about 'playing' football.
I don't care about the witch hunt that you seem to think the press put up against him. He should have been banned for life after the Evra incident, so should Terry for what he said to Ferdinand and I couldn't care less about whether the press were more interested in one incident than the other. Neither of them should ever step foot on a pitch again and frankly, I don't care how that happens.
Who am I to judge who plays football? I'm a football fan - the whole reason the sport exists.
You seem intent on trivialising Suarez's misconduct as if it's just the odd incident from which no harm comes - if that's the case you clearly haven't seen much of him playing over the last few years. Football has never been pure or fair, but it was a lot more above board. I have no issue with a player who's a bit of a pussy - like Ronaldo or Bale, neither do I have an issue with a player being tough and physical - like Skrtel (sp?) or De Jong. I do have an issue with players who go down like a sack of brick when there's no contact, scream and harass the ref, wave imaginary cards for the whole match, ball-out their teammates when they fvck up, put snidey kicks and digs into opponents (remember the kick on Parker?), intentionally handball off the line then celebrate like they just scored a wonder goal and racially abuse other players.
That's not niggles, that's something being entirely wrong with how he goes about 'playing' football.
I don't care about the witch hunt that you seem to think the press put up against him. He should have been banned for life after the Evra incident, so should Terry for what he said to Ferdinand and I couldn't care less about whether the press were more interested in one incident than the other. Neither of them should ever step foot on a pitch again and frankly, I don't care how that happens.
