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Luis Suarez was banned for 8 games last season after the FA found him guilty of racial abuse after he referred to Patrice Evra as “negro” during an argument. Suarez failed to convince the FA panel that he was using the term in a friendly way, given the pair of them were clearly at loggerheads at […]
Luis Suarez has admitted to diving, namely that embarrassing occasion against Stoke City, but claims the media make more of a fuss about him cheating because the media is controlled by Manchester United. “Sometimes you do things on the field that later you think ‘why the hell did I do that?’ People say I throw […]
By Far The Greatest…Goal of the Week (12) The Premier League threw up its usual amount of excitement and quality again last weekend. 1. Gareth Bale v Arsenal 2. Anthony Pilkington v Manchester United 3. Luis Suarez v Wigan Athletic 4. Stephane Sessegnon v Fulham 5. Jason Puncheon v QPR
The Premier League threw up its usual amount of excitement and quality again this weekend. Vote for your favorite goal of the weekend from the following 5 GIFS: 1.Demba Ba (Newcastle United v Reading) 2.Luis Suarez (Liverpool v Norwich City) 3.Nikica Jelavic (Everton v Southampton) 4.Gareth Bale (Spurs v Manchester United) 5.Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United […]
John Terry was today found guilty of “using abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Ferdinand and which included a reference to colour and/or race contrary to FA Rule E3[2]” and banned for four games as well as handed a £220,000 fine. The outcome of this case had been easily predicted since the Chief Magistrate’s […]
Liverpool will feel robbed today following their 2-1 defeat to Manchester United, despite being the better team for most of the game. Even after going down to ten men following Jonjo Shelvey’s challenge on Jonny Evans, when it could be argued the United man also could have received his marching orders, Liverpool still managed to […]
Whether the past 10 days represent, for you, the tedium of an international break or thrills on the road to Rio 2014, the return to Premier football is welcome enough to justify bringing forward this week’s ‘Who are You?’. Sunderland play Liverpool on Saturday evening and we asked David Wooding, a Liverpool-supporting journalist and broadcaster […]
The FA ruled that on the “balance of probability”, Luis Suarez racially abused Patrice Evra in a game between rivals Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield. The most damning evidence was probably the argument that “negro” could only be considered a safe term if used in a friendly way. Given that Suarez and Evra were […]