Tuesday, December 20, 2011

English FA Bans Suarez Eight Matches

The FA today dealt a pretty big blow to Luis Suarez, Liverpool, and Liverpool's supporters. They issued the Uruguay international an eight game ban for "racially abusing" United's Patrice Evra in a match earlier this year.


PHOTO: theaustralian.com.au

Evra claims Suarez "racially abused" him at least 10 times during the match. He reported it to the referee, who did include the allegation in his match report. The FA said they found the charges proven, however, they're suspending the ban for 14 days to allow Suarez to appeal.

Suarez has said that the problem arose because he didn't know that certain language used in Uruguay was considered racist in Europe. Suarez himself is of mixed heritage, and both Evra and the FA have stated that they do not believe Suarez is a racist. Now we wait for the appeal.

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