Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
To be perfectly honest Football authorities are pretty blaze about punishing violent offences point blank.

To me 10 weeks is pretty lenient considering the circumstances and the also sideline event is that some of this suspension will be served in the off season makes it a bit of a farce

The biting didn't even follow any type of fight/scuffle event before hand. All that happened was Ivanovic and Suarez tussled for the ball as happens between centr half and striker 1000 times a season. Suarez for some reason then launched into Ivanovic and bit him on the arm. Most natural actions in this case would be a punch headbutt etc but the bite is well out of left field. Considering it is also the second incident of biting from Suarez I am surprised a more sterner sanction wasn't called for.

The last bloke who got a pretty severe sanction for OTT reaction/violence was Cantona for the infamous kungfu kick on a spectator. He got 9 months. I am surprised Suarez didn't get something heftier and rivalling the Cantona ban
Its 10 games not weeks, therefore four games this season and 6 next season.