There are a couple of things i cannot get my head around regarding this situation. Firstly what happened to innocent until proven guilty. For me Suarez has already been hung drawn and quartered in a pretty despicable example of trial by media. Shouldn't we be waiting and finding out what the actual evidence is before we prejudge the issue. What I have seen upto now is pretty inconclusive.
Secondly what happened to our ethos of us being a family. If and for me it still an if Luis has done something wrong then what happened to rallying around and supporting each other through the hard times. We are all human and we all mistakes and if Luis has made one then for me we should be rallying around him and supporting him. That doesn't mean trying to be tribalistic and looking to defend the indefensible but acknowledging that we all make mistakes from time to time but you have to recover from those mistakes.
In my twenties I frequently did things that were wrong and things that I am not proud of and would hazard a guess that the people who are so quick to condemn Luis probably did the same. It's not about the mistakes you make in life but how you react to them that counts.
Why not stick to together ride out the storm and lets see how it pans out.
Pretty sensible post.
It's pretty difficult to work out what goes through Luis' mind on these occasions but the post from Baba Yagu above goes some way to explain why he reacts in this way occasionally and unless you have had that upbringing (and the Dingle doesn't quite count) then I don't think you can get near what he feels.
What I will say having played a lot of football as a kid is that I would much rather have had someone bite me on the shoulder than tackle me from behind and do my ACL or smash me in the mouth off the ball for taking the piss or countless other acts of violence we all endured 20-30 years ago. A little nibble on the shoulder is something to laugh at and not spend my saturday evening in a packed A&E.
Yes, he knows he shouldn't do it and also the likely sanction which means there should actually be some sympathy for him as part of a) the Liverpool family- definitely and b) the wider football family. It is a totally instinctive reaction when his wires are crossed.
Just think what he is losing directly here in terms of his involvement in the World Cup for the football mad country that he clearly loves. He is in the last 16 having worked his nuts off to get fit for a month, he is at his peak and now he is out of the tournament and his country will surely follow him 90 minutes later.
This isn't a bloke who doesn't care. He cares desperately about his family and thus his country and he has let them down. I think he will be absolutely devastated. There's no talk about doing to as part of trying to get away like there was before, these are the biggest games he will ever play in, and now he won't be playing.
For me he needs help and our support.
