After watching Spurs fight back to batter Man City on Sunday, I thought the fall out guy from the weekend was going to be Emmanual Adebayor. After yet another lacklustre performance from the big striker, I imagined that the focus of the game was going to circle round how ruthless AVB's men became when Adebayor was hooked.
Fast forward an hour or two and you'd have almost forgotten Spurs and City had even played earlier, let alone moan about the latest lazy shift from Manu.
A run of the mill defender vs striker coming together looked to have nothing in it until Suarez decided to have a gnaw on Branislav Ivanovic's arm as the pair fell to the ground. Unbelievable.
Twitter went into meltdown. Footballers and pundits had their say, Mike Tyson followed Suarez and there was a 'menu' of footballers doing the rounds - Bacary Lasagne being my personal favourite.
Within hours of the full-time whistle, Suarez was issuing apologies, Liverpool were releasing statements, Jamie Redknapp's suit was still too small for him and Arsene Wenger still hadn't seen anything to do with anything.
Suarez should find out the length of his ban today sometime but whatever he's hit with, you'll have some flk arguing it's too much and some folk arguing that nothing less than the death penalty will suffice.
Suarez already served a seven game ban three years ago for the very same thing whilst playing for Ajax. Yet Jermain Defoe escaped with just a yellow card after biting Javier Mascherano back in 2006.
In the grand scheme of things, there was little damage caused to Ivanovic. There's been tackles where players have been left with broken legs and the culprit served no ban. I'm sure there'll be players out there who've suffered that sort of nasty injury who would have loved to have swapped that for having Suarez nibble on their arm.
With that said though, the images of the incident have circled worldwide and the FA would be slaughtered for not punishing Suarez one way or another.
As far as I'm concerned, with only 4 games left until the end of the season, I'd issue him with a ban for those 4 games and look to offer some sort of help via anger management or such like. For the guy to have done it twice now aswell as being caught up in other incidents, he could clearly do with the help.
A ban for the last four games also puts it to bed and means that Suarez can start next season with a clean slate (to a degree).
There's always an over the top reaction to these sort of controversial incidents but for me, four games is more than enough of a punishment on top of any fine handed to him by Liverpool and an agreement to attend some sort of anger classes.
He's undoubtedly an incredible footballer and the quicker Liverpool help him to work on getting rid of the idiotic side of his game, the better for everyone.
Dave Black - @LiviLion21
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