As many of the English team supporters have now become Urgauanian fans, and Italy, Spain and England will be going back home on separate flights (nope, no saving up by boarding the same flight), yesterday we have witnessed that some football players can be cannibals; hungry cannibals on the football pitch.
I am no football expert and don’t intend to ever become one. Also, I am not trying to defend the Italian team here, I’m siding with Holland this World Cup anyway, the Dolce and Gabbana suits did not have that much of an impact on me. But really, since when do players bite other players and the referee does not do anything about it? Actually when does biting another player even come to mind?
We always go on about how football is a beautiful game, how it unites people and so on. Fifa’s series of advertisements about racism and equality sustains this. Yet to me, football has become full of corruption and players with an attitude that makes you want to vomit or bang your head against the wall. And Suarez is not the only wrestler in football history.
Let us remember about Zidane and his famous "testata’ at Materazzi. You can compare him to a matador during a bullfight if you’d like. The muleta (the red drape that the matador waves at the bull) is Materazzi and the bull is Zidane of course.
But back to Suarez, his biting tactics were not only present in this World Cup. Suarez actually has a biting history, yes a biting history…what an honour aye? While playing at Ajax in Holland in 2010, Suarez was suspended seven games for biting PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal on his shoulder (shoulder meat seems to taste good). Then in 2013, while playing for Liverpool, he was suspended 10 games for biting Chelsea’s Branislow Ivanovic on the arm. Now, as he is playing for Uruguay in the 2014 World Cup he bit Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder, his favourite spot of meat, and he was not punished during the game.
To me, someone who is not an expert, yet enjoys watching a good game with friends, biting other players is not football. Football is running after a round object called a ball and trying to get it past the goaler into the net. I know it’s a pretty basic definition, but still it gets the point through that football does not equal the WWE. Football should not be made of bad losers, that doesn’t make for a beautiful game.
