There has been much to admire about the 2014 Brazil World Cup so far.
Glorious goals (take a bow Tim Cahill, Robin van Persie and James Rodriguez), all-out attacking football (I’m looking at you Colombia, Holland and Brazil) and ingenious innovation (OK, I may have over-egged the referees’ invisible spray a little too much).
But Luis Suarez and Uruguay have done their best to undo all of that.
The Liverpool striker DID bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini and his four-month global ban IS just punishment from FIFA. Heck, he’s now bitten three fellow professionals.
As a footballing nation, Uruguay – coincidentally one of the few negative teams on show at the World Cup – have managed stoop even lower than their star striker with their response to the suspension too.
Claims of an agenda from the ‘English speaking media’ are ridiculous. Suarez was voted our football writers’ player of the year before a ball was kicked in Brazil.
Captain Diego Lugano (of West Brom, no less) has been spouting similar garbage about a conspiracy against his team-mate.
It’s just farcical. The evidence against Suarez is overwhelming and he has to do his time. Sadly for Premier League fans, we’ve probably seen the last of one of the world’s greats on our shores as a result.
Good riddance? I guess. But more so to negative, horrible Uruguay and their deluded apologists.
