Football: is biting someone worse than breaking his leg?

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

Biting an opponent in sport is horrible and not something that any normal person would do (so that leaves Tyson and Suarez).

But is it really worse than anything else that goes on on a football pitch, such as deliberately tackling in a way that causes injury and possibly ends the other man's career?

[upthecreekyetagain]

How is biting someone any more premeditated than elbowing someone in the heat of the moment?

Deliberate, certainly. (rather difficult to bite someone by accident!), but that's not the same thing.

[cee-dee]

Well the difference is that although you might get bruised following an elbowing, you won't get broken skin or an infection like you can from a bite.

The long and short of it is biting is completely unacceptable no matter how hard you try to excuse or justify it.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Not trying to justify it, anymore than I would a dangerous tackle that breaks a player's leg or an elbow that breaks someone's cheekbone.

I just can't get worked up about it - the guy's been found guilty and sentenced - that should be the end of it.

[cee-dee]

It won't be the end of it until there's the next bit of salacious news, then it'll all be forgotten.

[**bustysinclaire**]

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

How is biting someone any more premeditated than elbowing someone in the heat of the moment?

Deliberate, certainly. (rather difficult to bite someone by accident!), but that's not the same thing.

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I am not so sure, deliberate yes on both counts, but I know premeditated is not the same as deliberate. I say premiditated because the person biting (my opinion) knows exactly what he is doing when biting. A bite is rather more of a nasty distasteful act, more on a personal level, where an elblowing although deliberate and possibly in the heat of the moment could be and would be passed off as that.

I have to admit to not perhaps being able to describe in the way I would like but biting is an all time low offence against another person, like spitting, it is more a disrespect towards another person.

[joe_bloggs*]

I see another sponsor has dropped him,Colgate

[saasher2012]

That's ironic ! lol.

[al**bear]

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@bhol-uk2014 wrote:

the cheating, diving mcStay broke his own nose and all 15 members of the jury who heard all of the evidence were all members of the mcStay family.

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Wouldn't take a lot considering how many times it was broken before

[evoman3957]

So it was reported tonight, that Suarez has been bought by Barcelona; on a contract of £75 Million over 3 Years, making him the most expensive footballer in history.................... what a waste of time !!

[saasher2012]

It must be the most expensive set of teeth on record!

[upthecreekyetagain]

Why no threads about Juan Zuniga who could easily have paralysed Neymar!

There is no way that biting someone's shoulder is anywhere near as serious as foulplay that could easily have ended a fellow professional's playing career as well as possibly putting them in a wheelchair for the rest of their life!

[evoman3957]

I agree with you, but if we had threads for every "Scum Bag" that plays football; we'd need a special dedicated website. Somebody just happened to pick Suarez for this thread, no conspiracy involved.

[upthecreekyetagain]

None of these worse than a bite? - Apparently not as some of the offenders didn't receive a ban of any kind and none were as long as that given to Suarez!

[evoman3957]

Now you know why A&E's all over the Country are swamped on a Sunday night, all those Sunday Pub Football teams hacking hell out of each other. I hear half of them are still drunk from the night before and if something moves...........they just kick it !!