Sadly, it's precisely because he's such a brilliant football player that he is being targeted by the press. Everyone has an opinion and, when the great fall, the drama ensues.
Personally, if he was my mate, I'd probably be trying to cheer him up now. Defiantly irreverant. I wouldn't give a shit about who he'd bit - because he's my mate and, well, we've all fucked up at some point or another.
Morals. Ethics. It was bad form, luis. Bad form. I regret to inform you that, quite apart from your dazzling wit and uncanny ability to entertain us in all aspects of our senses, you will no longer be considered welcome at the country-club banquet. Furthermore, I declare you a brute! It is quite bad form, sir!
And he said, "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone."