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Distin: Suarez could have broken my ankle
The 34-year-old defender was dumped on the Goodison turf in after the Liverpool striker raked his studs down his ankle but he took to Twitter to assure fans that he had suffered no lasting damage.
"Thanks for the concern," he Tweeted. "My ankle is all good considering it could have been broken."
Having put Mirallas out of the game with a stamp top the foot in the first half,
Suarez rakes his studs down Distin's ankle
Ex-referee Graham Poll wrote of the incident on the Daily Mail website: "He (Suarez) was correctly booked - his second 'offence' - in the 71st minute when he showed his bad side by treading on the Achilles of Sylvain Distin.
"Suarez indicated his studs had caught in the turf causing the accidental clash. Replays showed no such slip and he was cautioned for the fourth time in the league this season."
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2 Posted 01/11/2012 at 06:56:51
He just does not stop making a mockery of our league and its rules. Punish the little rat properly and maybe he will stop, or even better, fuck off!!
3 Posted 01/11/2012 at 07:09:17
4 Posted 01/11/2012 at 08:00:42
The one side of his game where we didn't think he was despicable is his intention to really hurt opponents with underhand dangerous tackles. In both cases, he didn't go into a straight tackle badly but he made a point of catching them when the ball had gone in a way that could have put them on the treatment table for six months.
Perhaps other managers will see this in him now and he will get his comeuppance in the near future.
5 Posted 01/11/2012 at 07:46:37
Should one of the leagues hard men give him the treatment he would find little sympathy. Their problem RS is they would be dog meat without him.
7 Posted 01/11/2012 at 09:12:39
He's getting away with them type of challenges all the time and will continue to do so as long as there's weak referees around like Marriner.
And I'm sorry but I don't adhere to the fact that he's a fantastic footballer. Fantastic footballers have a bit of class about them and a bit of humility. And last time I looked he certainly never had either of those two redeeming features.
8 Posted 01/11/2012 at 09:26:34
9 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:46:52
He can walk on water as far as they're concerned.
Sums them up really.
10 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:49:45
11 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:53:56
They still say he's innocent and it's all the refs and the FA and this conspiracy to get him out of England.
Insanity.
12 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:28:30
Yes, that's right, having watched it again, you'll realise that after that, initial nightmare 20 min spell for us, you were out-passed and out-played... especially after Osman had you in his pocket for 70 mins.
It sounds to me like he's been told to say this by the club's hierarchy because I don't think for one minute he's got the humility to come out with it himself. It's obvious he's been told because he's apologised to Stoke as well.
Inwardly he must be fuming having to issue this apology then again he's probably took one look at himself running 80 yards to celebrate the 'ghost goal' — as one non-match-going so-called kopite said to me on Monday, and realised how silly he looked. I did try and tell this cretin that 'ghost goal' was actually coined by Jose Mourhino. But I don't think he knew who I was talking about
13 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:40:29
14 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:00:28
As for our RS friends, I think any of their players could take out a gun and shoot someone on the pitch and they would still deny it happened or find some lame excuse to justify it. Mentality of the herd, don't you just love it?
15 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:38:11
16 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:22:24
17 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:34:28
It has carried on this year with their constant whining about him never getting any penalties because of his reputation for being a diver. Well, it is a well-earned reputation and you reap what you sow.
I noticed that their club banned a fan for racist behaviour last year as they take a zero tolerance policy towards racism. The irony seemed lost on them at the time.
The fact is, they are a once big club in a spiral of decline. They can't accept this. Full stop. Their fans are a bunch of delusional idiots. They are managed by people who are delusional idiots and, guess what, their captain is a delusional idiot.
18 Posted 01/11/2012 at 13:24:39
19 Posted 01/11/2012 at 14:02:29
20 Posted 01/11/2012 at 14:54:20
He definately focusing his eyes on Distins and Mirallas's legs. Ive watched it slow motion (posh telly) and you can by his body language he was determined to have them. Let's hope he's in no fit state to ever play against us again.
21 Posted 01/11/2012 at 15:58:36
They are still crying now in their pints of bitter... they cannot take it that we are a better side than them. Get used to it, you bitter bitter reds.
22 Posted 01/11/2012 at 16:24:09
23 Posted 01/11/2012 at 18:56:33
Absolutely no attempt to play the ball, tried to swipe the leg and end up stamping on the foot/ankle and attempting a dive for good measure!
24 Posted 01/11/2012 at 19:30:09
We have all been attempting to define Suarez and describe him properly. It is really difficult because in fifty of watching football he is the worst specimen I have ever witnessed. A coward, a cheat and a fundamentally disgusting man. I could never support a club if he wore the shirt. The admirable Shankly would be ashamed. Sadly, there is no one there who knows the meaning of the word..
For Shankly, Lawler, Paisley, Fagan etc, swop Suarez, Gerrard, Carragher etc. It's sad really.
25 Posted 01/11/2012 at 19:43:01
26 Posted 01/11/2012 at 20:46:58
27 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:01:07
28 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:10:04
29 Posted 02/11/2012 at 10:56:31
I've seen the video of him biting that player's ear when he was playing in Holland (in fact I think it's on YouTube). Anybody who could do that, especially in the 'matter of fact' way that he did it, has no conception whatsoever of acceptable behavioural boundaries.
I used to berate players like Tommy Smith, Johnny Giles and Billy Bremner (amongst others) for cynicism and a tendency to resort to 'violence' too easily (in fairness a bit less so for Smith) but those fellas were amateurs compared to Suarez. He's like a weasel and I once heard somebody say in a wildlife documentary that if weasels were the size of lions they would be the most dangerous animals on the planet.
Well we have one the size of a RS footballer and Distin and Mirallas now know how dangerous weasels that size can be.
There is definitely something wrong with a football club that puts up with that from a player and condones it by protecting the bastard. Perhaps it's the club's ego deflating too slowly for the pace of the demise of their self-awarded status that leads to their belief that they can do no wrong and it was perhaps this that enabled them to run out with t-shirts supporting a player capable of overt racism.
Sometimes my hatred of LFC embarrasses me. I'm 65 years old and I feel so fucking juvenile in this one respect. I hated them when I was 15 and 50 years later I have not mellowed at all and I hate them even more and I hate them even more because from the owners to the fucking tea lady they all think Suarez is a legend!
Fellaini came to us with a bit of a reputation. The reputation was overstated but it did have a bit of substance. The club have worked on that and generally now he keeps his elbows to himself and he no longer gets pulled up every time he makes a challenge. And he is a better player for it. Well done Moyesie et al.
Wouldn't you think somebody at LFC would take Suarez aside in the same way and just say to him, "Look lad, you're a good player. Let your football do the talking or there will come a point when you're more trouble than you're worth". No they won't because they are all so deluded they think the vile little bastard is 'misunderstood'.
I don't quite agree with Moyes that fans will desert football because of the likes of Suarez. Maybe the game is too big for that and maybe there are too many who support players like Suarez as long as they are at their club. But if I was a young dad now thinking of starting my kids off on the short road to Evertonianship, I wouldn't be too happy taking them to see shits like Suarez every week.
30 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:43:38
However, Suarez is a new breed of snivelling cheating, diving trying to get opponents sent off, whispering racist comments into an opponent's ear, trying to badly injure opponents after the ball has gone knowing he could end their careers, so a horrible piece of work he is... Perhaps there is a character in films or TV somewhere who bears the same traits and we can all highlight the comparison....
31 Posted 02/11/2012 at 12:08:30
But I wonder if there's a way to get these views expressed to their owners in USA. Because having read some of their fan forums I can see that there are some on the other side who don't like him as a person and find him embarrassing. If their owners felt he was destroying the brand, they might do something about it. Or am I being naive? And is he best left alone in the hope that he'll actually destroy himself big time at some point? And take them down with him?
I just feel I want to take my anger out on something in some way!
32 Posted 02/11/2012 at 12:59:42
33 Posted 02/11/2012 at 14:12:18
The word is (I don't know the correct spelling): "sleeveen." Perhaps any Irish-speaking Evertonians would confirm whether this word does mean oily, sly, git, and whether they think it suitable for Rat gob.
34 Posted 02/11/2012 at 14:31:13
"Donkey mouth" as somebody on TW called him! I think that's ace. Perhaps TWebbers could chip in to buy a donkey on Blackpool beach (if they still have them) - we could call it Suarez and feed it carrots - I can just see the teeth chomping now! Imagine the shit it would leave behind - as now.
35 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:26:55
36 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:37:53
37 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:57:11
[This is for my own entertainment and that of my fellow blue wordsmiths....]
Suarez = Sickening, Unethical, Abhorrent, Repulsive, Execrable Zenophobe
Maybe I'll do it in Scouse later too
38 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:59:28
Here it is from Wikipedia – actually funny..
The capybara has a heavy, barrel-shaped body and short head [...]. Its sweat glands can be found in its haired skin surface, an unusual trait among rodents.
Adult capybaras stand 50 to 64 cm [...] The top recorded weight is 73.5 kg (162 lb) for a wild male from Uruguay.
Capybaras have slightly webbed feet and vestigial tails. Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads. They are all completely insufferable snide racist gobshites.
(OK, the last bit was mine)
COYFB !!!
39 Posted 02/11/2012 at 16:02:55
Jimmy (Head-fuckin) Case - ending Geoff Nulty's career
Souness - sneaky, dirty (nee filthy) bastard
Emelyn "squeaky-clean" Hughes, gobshite extra-ordinaire
THAT club seems to continue to attract players that all of football takes an instant dislike to.
40 Posted 02/11/2012 at 16:29:00
"School of...."
Complete
41 Posted 02/11/2012 at 18:51:41
I'm in my 50s and I thought as I'd get older my hatred for them would maybe mellow a bit. How wrong was I? I detest the bastards more than ever... it's a bit sad. But, while they've got players of the ilk of Gerrard Carragher and the beaver Cilla playing for them, I don't think it'll wane.
The thing is I've got a 9-year-old son and he's going exactly the same way as me with the twisted faces on him when anything about them comes on telly and the snide comments and all.
I should be quite disgusted but actually inwardly I'm saying that's my boy – shocking isn't it? But that's the way we are...
I was talking to a pub red in work the other day about that thing up front for them and he was waxing lyrical how great he was etc, to which I calmly replied he's a rat. He replied, "Yeah, but he's our rat." You couldn't make it up you really couldn't
42 Posted 02/11/2012 at 23:00:12
The thought that the RS players were under instructions to "harass" our back line also went through my mind - remember Sterling was booked (and could have seen red) for a deliberate kick at Baines in the first half.
I'm sure that BR didn't say "injure" the Everton players and that Suarez took it too far, but I suspect that first on the list of tasks and targets given to BR by his American boss is "finish above the other team in the city".
43 Posted 03/11/2012 at 09:29:36
44 Posted 03/11/2012 at 10:39:40
I think we all know the answer... say no more.
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1 Posted 01/11/2012 at 05:06:14