Luis Suárez did what we all would’ve done, made an amazing goal line save in the last minute of extra time in a World Cup Quarter Final despite the fact that he is a prolific striker as opposed to his team’s goal keeper. He was caught, sent off, will miss the Semi Final and the opposition had a penalty with the last kick of the game. Which they missed. Hardly Luis’ fault is it?
Someone compared this to Maradona who, if memory serves we right, got away scot free with scoring a goal with what looked like his hand but what later turned out to be the hand of God. Now THAT is cheating. But let’s be honest, you wouldn’t've owned up to that either.
People have criticized England for not caring enough, not showing enough passion, not playing for the shirt. This poor guy left the field in tears after doing something that might, just might have given his country a slim chance of progressing in the competition. His gamble paid off.
We shouldn’t call this man a cheat, he is a martyr, he sacrificed himself for his homeland. Luis Suárez, I salute you.
While I’m on the subject of homelands, Marcel Desailly, you may have been born in Ghana but when you were a world class footballer you didn’t show much patriotism did you (116 French caps)? I suppose you could be forgiven for playing for your parent’s country of birth, many have. Unfortunately Marcel, both your parents are Ghanaian. Desailly is a very French name though, as is Marcel, must have some French blood in you somewhere. Nope you changed it from Odenke Abbey, the name you were born with.
For all your jumping up and down, it would seem, when it came down to it, you showed more loyalty to your French step father than you did to your country of birth.
Oh, and Brazil are out. How about that eh?
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Totally agree, I had this EXACT argument with my housemate. Suarez didnt cheat, it was instinct, passion, did what he had to do…call it what you will. Maradona cheated, he tried to deceive the opposition and referee. Suarez wasnt deceiving anyone, yes it was a blatent foul and he quite rightly saw red…but he gave his country a chance to reach the semi finals which he will now miss, not a bad sacrifice.
Put simply, he showed more passion in that one moment than England have been able to muster up since Gazza in Italia ’90! More please.
Totally disagree. ‘Cheating vs. Inexplicably getting away with it’ would be a more appropriate weighting. You mean to tell me that if the referee had been unsighted/drunk/full of mischief and missed the incident that Suarez would’ve owned up and fucked off the pitch? Nah. Attempted to Cheat. Spotted. Failed. Still, Ghana missed the penalty (and unless I’m missing something here how exactly could that possibly be construed as the fault of Suarez?) and that’s on them. Bad form.
Also ‘Put simply, he showed more passion in that one moment than England have been able to muster up since Gazza in Italia ’90! More please.’ Well, what you’ve done there is confuse ‘passion’ with ‘crying on a football pitch in the later stages of a World Cup.’ I’d rather my England team showed technique and an even temperament than this so-called ‘passion’. Did Beckham showed passion when he kicked Simeone in 1998? Nah. He showed stupidity and frustration.
Right. I’m off to be upset about cat sick.
I don’t actually think he took one for the team, I just think he cheated because he wanted to win. Him. Personally. It came naturally to him. Just as it did to all the people who comment on the game nowadays, all those ex-cheats who can’t really have a go at cheats. We need moral superiority on the pundit settee. I vote for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer whose famous foul on Robert Lee was in the same bracket as the Monk who set himself on fire for the RATM album cover. Pure honour.