SOCCER SPORT !

[OTGabe]

Suarez may have done many questionable things, but the handball I honestly can't find an issue with (he wasn't even a LFC player at the time). He broke the rules and got the red card for it, so it's not like he got away with it. If this would've been in the 30th minute of the game no one would've objected.

"May have done questionable things" - quite an understatement! Getting caught and punished for being a cheat doesn't absolve you of being a cheat. As for no one objecting to an intentional handball no matter when it occurs, we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

[meijlinder]

"May have done questionable things" - quite an understatement! Getting caught and punished for being a cheat doesn't absolve you of being a cheat. As for no one objecting to an intentional handball no matter when it occurs, we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

Have never heard someone call a goalkeeper a cheat for bringing down an opposing player that have gone past him (clear on goal). This for me is the same type of situation. Red and a penalty.

[OTGabe]

Have never heard someone call a goalkeeper a cheat for bringing down an opposing player that have gone past him (clear on goal). This for me is the same type of situation. Red and a penalty.

Clearly I'm not going to change your mind and you're not going to change mine.

[litlmn]

For the right price, I imagine they would. I mean, Arsenal sold Van Persie to United.

That's a good point, I had forgotten about that (purposefully).

[Raza]

"May have done questionable things" - quite an understatement! Getting caught and punished for being a cheat doesn't absolve you of being a cheat. As for no one objecting to an intentional handball no matter when it occurs, we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

Cheating and getting caught is worse than cheating and getting away with it?

[OTGabe]

Cheating and getting caught is worse than cheating and getting away with it?

Of course not, and I never said anything like that. I just disagree that when someone cheats to help his team win, then gets paraded around like a conquering hero, the fact that he got a red card somehow absolves the cheating. Back to my original point, anyone who stood by Suarez through diving, racism, biting, handballs (don't forget the one in the FA Cup) should have zero issues with supporting Costa, who hasn't come anywhere close to that sort of dirty play.

[Raza]

Of course not, and I never said anything like that. I just disagree that when someone cheats to help his team win, then gets paraded around like a conquering hero, the fact that he got a red card somehow absolves the cheating. Back to my original point, anyone who stood by Suarez through diving, racism, biting, handballs (don't forget the one in the FA Cup) should have zero issues with supporting Costa, who hasn't come anywhere close to that sort of dirty play.

Perhaps. It's not like Costa's goals would be unwelcome.

[93EXCivic]

I don't have any issue with the handball to save a goal in an elimination world cup game. I would do the same.

The biting is indefensible in my mind

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[Raza]

I don't have any issue with the handball to save a goal in an elimination world cup game. I would do the same.

The biting is indefensible in my mind

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I'm okay with both.

[Raza]

Lucas Leiva was officially released by LFC yesterday. End of an era. I'll miss him.