World Cup 2014

Luis is correct in many ways about the double standards re: violence in football, and yet surely by now he's worked out what happens when he bites somebody

― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:23 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this post

haha me too

nobody's defending the boy's dining habits but the outrage this shit invokes compared to dudes who've made careers out of casually elbowing faces/trying to snap legs is out of all proportion to the relative damage done. yeah but biting is really really bad i know! but y'know weird acceptable/unacceptable aggressions

― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:33 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i also think this is otm

it's funny to me that so many people (not itt, just generally) draw the line at biting. i'm not disagreeing at all, it's just interesting to see people's tastes in dirty sport tactics drawn out of them.

Fifa’s disciplinary code has the scope to suspend a player for a maximum of 24 matches – which, technically, can include club games but in practice tends to be only internationals. The longest ban in World Cup history was an eight-match one on Italy’s Mauro Tassotti for breaking Spain’s Luis Enríque’s nose in 1994 with an elbow.

stoked

breaki g news thank u sportscenter:
fifa charges luis suarez for biting giorgio chiellini
if found guilty faces a ban of 2 matches to 24 months
decision must be issued before next match on sat

God I love Suarez.

lol boris johnson what a legend

If he stays at LFC a 2 year international ban would work out quite nicely. Keep him fresh and rested during all the international breaks.

He'll already be fresh and rested seeing as he misses ten games a season due to suspension for whatever is his latest burst of insanity

boris johnson is not a legend, he is a nasty, elitest, extreme right wing, eugenicist. Suarez > Boris Johnson

Is that a biting symbol? Boris is biting Suarez

buarez

Boris bites

is Raccoon Tanuki an old poster with a very straight bat or a new poster liable to miss a lil nuance

either way there's great craic havin

http://a.pomf.se/phdzcy.gif

shame i missed this match, ironically i was out having a bite at a nearby italian

lol

also jfc that's worse looking than I thought

Needs to play against Germany so he can try shoulder of Lahm.

Yikes xp, that's your Zapruder film right there. Bloody British press.

Lucky escape for Ham-es Rodriguez.

Why oh why is massimo maccarone not in the squad

It is of couse because he never pasta ball

has anyone interviewed sports psychologist Steve Peters about the sterling work he seems to have done with certain Liverpool players and the England squad

xps probably heard chiellini was il duce de leche

L - R: Steve Peters, Luis Suarez

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Chiltonsilence.jpg

the chomp paradox

Die Grieken zijn toch wel de ultieme bad guys

as ever, De Subjectivisten otm

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/24/football-fan-wins-500-after-betting-3-on-luis-suarez-biting-player-at-world-cup-4774558/

Somehow whatever happens in world football, Greece remain the same. Really feeling for CIV but they should have had Bony on from the start. And not been so suicidally attacking near the end.

Greece were easily the better side though, Ivory Coast were garbage. Hope they spank Costa Rica too. Come on ye Hellenes!

Meanwhile I had Chewaguy to win in the office sweep so there goes a quid thanks luiz xp

it's funny to me that so many people (not itt, just generally) draw the line at biting.

Ummmmmmmmm, I've been watching football all my life and until the advent of Suarez I'd never seen a player bite another player - not saying it hadn't happened before, but that's a bit like saying "I draw the line at a goalkeeper distracting a penalty taker by balancing a spoon on his nose".

smh jordan

Second Captains has been so great the past couple of days - leading with bitey old Suarez in the pre-match build-up yesterday, then getting to do it all over again today in the aftermath!

Ummmmmmmmm, I've been watching football all my life and until the advent of Suarez I'd never seen a player bite another player - not saying it hadn't happened before, but that's a bit like saying "I draw the line at a goalkeeper distracting a penalty taker by balancing a spoon on his nose".

but is it worse than and should it be punished more than e.g. any one of a dozen Steven Gerrard leg-breakers?

must d/l second captains but its finding the time to listen tbrr

agreed re biting and harm to be caused, but the reason violent conduct like elbow, biting, headbutt, raised fists etc is straight red is that you can't rly claim to have been doing anything as legit as going in and getting it wrong, mistimed or w/e, its p much a nulle prosequi as far as pleading goes

http://i.imgur.com/6c1OkgB.png

Ken Early has been killing it on Second Captains recently

if an alien were to come to earth don't you think he'd find it strange that we allow abortion ot innocent babies but that some people don't believe in the death penalty for murderers???

yall came out with this faux naive /makes u think/ bs the last time he did it

biting is not functionally more grievous than all the other ways u can cause harm to someone, and yes life does indeed feature a variety of hypocrisies, but it is quite obviously taboo in a way the others are not

k3v otm

this is reminding me of the enforcer/fighting arguments in hockey

fuck a taboo tbh - if I'm a pro footballer who relies on his legs to make a living I'd rather be spat on or have my shoulder chewed than have my legs broken

you've got Shearer and Savage and Wright calling for life bans when they've all got previous for deliberately attempting to injure opponents - there's some underlying Real Men Go In Hard nonsense with all this that makes it somehow *not* taboo to try to injure an opponent while treating spitters as uncouth vermin who are ruining the game

you play footie and arms and legs are flailing around. bad tackles and elbows are the violent extreme of that. but teeth are an outside element entirely. that's closer to pulling a sock full of pennies out of your shorts than a studs up leg breaker. whatever the practical consequences of the action, that's why the bite seems so outre imo.

a lot of contrarian pro-biting slatepitching itt

I think there is a valid question here, which is: Should the severity of the penalty be proportional to the severity of the injury caused (in terms of affecting the victim's ability to play, length of recovery, etc.) or should it take into account the unusual manner in which it was caused?

I think there should be lengthy bans for disgusting savages who bite and spit.
I think there should be lengthy bans for deliberately dangerous actions that could result in injury.

e.g. this guy wants the book thrown at Suarez but went unpunished for this:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2315959/alan-shearer-o.gif

I guess you're saying biting and spitting deserve more severe penalties than other actions that cause relatively mild injuries because they are more disgusting? But who decides what is disgusting? It's ultimately an aesthetic judgement, isn't it? Genuinely curious. For comparison, Zidane's infamous headbutt was arguably pretty disgusting, but it only earned him a 3-game suspension, which was moot anyway since he retired.

who argues that zizou's headbutt was disgusting?

thought the general consensus was WTF? Oh it's Matarazzi. Reasons.