Luis Suarez divides opinion among the fans, journalists and football lovers. He is a terrific talent. He has loads of ability and is a nightmare for the defenders.
But there is a dark side of the moon too. He has also caught the attention of media for all wrong reasons. But most damning is the allegation that he is one hell of a diver. He goes down to the ground easily and at times theatrically.
While understandably Liverpool fans try to safeguard their player, defend him by saying that other players/defenders are bamboozled by his trickery. The preening and pouting that he does can make the opposition frustrated and hence they constantly tackle him down.
Being a foreigner he hasn’t received much sympathy from many corners in England and thereby fouls hurled at him are looked upon with derision.
Yesterday, Suarez was in his vintage best as his twiddling turns, nutmegs were creating loads of trouble for Stoke defenders Ryan Shawcross and Robert Huth.
It was a frustrating draw in the end for the Reds against an intransigent opponent and once again the headline goes to Luis Suarez. Probably frustrated by lack of decision going against him, he decided to con the referee within the vicinity of the penalty area with a hilarious and at the same time ridiculous dive.
It was a dive and to be honest a very poor dive. Whether Rodgers chose to see it, ignore it or whatever the truth will never change.
Tony Pulis frustrated and disappointed, said in the post-match reaction “He’s a fantastic player, he’s got great ability and he is the one player we were frightened to death of today, but doing things like that.
“Retrospective decisions are made on a Monday by the FA and they should be looking at this. Give him three games and he will stop falling over.”
Indeed he has every right to make such strong statements but then his lack of notice regarding Robert Huth’s stamp on the same player only suggests that he is interested with only one side of the story.
As a professional footballer one shouldn’t dive. Pulis was very moralistic when saying that, but where was his moral when his own defender stamped on the chest as early as in the 4th minute? How the Stoke manager chose to avoid it when that stamp could have injured the striker badly?
A crime is a crime. What Suarez has done is a disgrace to professional football but it is also a FACT that he has been treated unfairly by the referee and even to a major extent by the media . It doesn’t make sense, when only one side of the coin is considered every time it is tossed.
Poor little Luis…. always the victim, but never his fault? There is a saying “you reap what you sow”, he certainly deserves the ridicule he gets. Good player that really should just concentrate on his game and cut out the stupid antics, else he will always be remebered for being a cheat as opposed to a very good football player.
I also dont buy the following “Being a foreigner he hasn’t received much sympathy from many corners in England and thereby fouls hurled at him are looked upon with derision”. That is a crass comment.. there are plenty of foreigners in the game of ours, so please dont try justifying this odious character by using that poor excuse. P*ss poor journalism yet again… and obviously a reds fan!!!
Pullis is moulding a team of rough play tactics. How else you explain the stamping on the chest of Suarez by Huth and his continued roughing him up so much so the referee had to give a yellow card to quieten him when he deserved a red card. Another player who also used rough house tactics was Walters. Six yellow cards tell some of the story of Stoke. Should FA ban Pulis?
at last, a truthful article intellectually written. Well done, couldn’t agree more.
I’m totally neutral but I disagree it was a dive. The contact was there and it was plenty enough to put Suarez off balance but not with such theatrics … The embellishment is pretty dire and worthy of yellow IMO but non-the-less it should have been a penalty.
I agree whole-heartedly with your comments. Suarez has been one of the most fouled players in the Premier League this season so far and has had almost not no decisions go for him. He has had a few stone-wall penalties turned down, but consistently gets no protection from the referees. Did he dive? hell yes, but there was contact, but he has shown that if there is contact and he doesn’t go down the ref ignores it then too. He even can get stamped on the ref turns a blind eye. Managers and the press have been a little quick to jump on the band wagon, as we didn’t hear too much about Valencia going down a little theatrically at Anfield a couple of weeks ago. As for Pulis and Huth? I’m sure Pulis put on a mock french accent and suggested “I deed no zee it”
Referee Lee Mason should make an urgent appointment with an optician and cease driving until his spectacles are ready, as until then he is a danger to himself and other road users.
Enough is enough!. These anti-liverpool Refs and their FA governing body should be answerable, for their disgraceful treatment of LIVERPOOL FC.
It is about time that LFC tackle this anti LFC problem once and for all, starting with mass demonstrations!!!
Mass demonstartions??? FFS lad, get a grip…. how about an online petition, how about harrassing the Norwegian parliament?? what conspiracy theory? You really do need to take off the red tinted specs and get a grip on reality….
@AJ …. You sound like a contented manure fan, and who can blame you?, when you’re given 4 pen in your first 5 matches?, and with opposition players sent off?.
Maybe you also think that, officials should make it easier for you. Reality you say?, ye, right, it’s right in front of you, and there for all to see!.
By the way, we still played you off the pitch, even with that disgraceful sending off, and officials backing your cheating cause!!!.
When a player falls in the middle of the field no huru hare. Why? But when he falls in the penalty box, Pulis gets overworked! Why? The solution is this: ignore all falling over and carry on with the match, except in the case of penalties.
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Pullis is moulding a team of rough play tactics. How else you explain the stamping on the chest of Suarez by Huth and his continued roughing him up so much so the referee had to give a yellow card to quieten him when he deserved a red card. Another player who also used rough house tactics was Walters. Six yellow cards tell some of the story of Stoke. Should FA ban Pulis?
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