Luis Suarez 10 game ban

Within the Soccer world the name Luis Suarez is one that splits opinions and is accompanied by controversy all across the world. His regular rule breaking, and law breaking actions drag down a man who is without doubt one of the greatest footballers and strikers of this generation.

Some of Suarez's negative actions include, racism towards Patrice Evra, deliberately handling the ball in the World Cup game v Ghana, and refusing to shake Evras' hand following the racism incident. More recently however he bit Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic in Liverpool's 2-2 draw. This is not the first time in which Suarez bit an opponent as he did it in Holland while playing for Ajax.

In class we talked about defiance is sport and punishments governing bodies give players. Coakley stated in his book " Efforts to control brutal body contact require changes in gender ideology and the cultures of certain sports." According to the article by David Bond in BBC sport, The FA have given Suarez a 10 match ban, which is 7 games longer then the standard 3 match ban usually offered for violent conduct within a game. The FA have previously banned players for longer then Suarez has received. In 1998 Paolo Di Canio received a 11 game ban for pushing over the referee and Barton received a 12 game ban for violent conduct for QPR.

These are signs that The FA are trying to reduce the level of defiance within the sport of football and prepared to increase bans for exceptionally bad showing of sportsmanship.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22278258

 Coakley. (2009). Sports In Society. New York: McGraw-Hill