Re: Suarez (merged)
8 match ban for Suarez. He deserves to miss every minute of it.
A gobshite of a player. No respect at all.
The fact is, that when you're gone, you'll be remembered for the impact you had on the people around.
Football isn't much different, when you retire and slip into irrelevance, you can be left on one side of it or on the other.
You can be remembered as someone who defined football, and have such an impression on the game that even 20 years later you're still talked about as one of the best:
Best, Pele, Maradona, than the likes of Zidane, Ronaldo (the original one) and now Messi.
Some players will be remembered for the characters they brought to the game:
Ronaldo (the other one) Roy Keane, Alan Shearer, Patrick Vieira. All flamboyant characters to say the least.
These are all players people want to talk to, give media jobs to, and there are just some nice guys in the game who will be remembered as just that, top class..not world class by any means, but grafters, and heroes in their own right.
The likes of Shay Given, seems to be the most liked player in football, not just for being an excellent keeper, but, for the work he does outside football as well. He gives back, like a lot of players do, because football has given him that opportunity to do so, a lot of charity work..he really was a pleasure to have at the club while we did.
Or you can let the game run you and define you. Be on the not so popular list.
Let the riches and the fame and the power get to you, and manipulate you.
Terry, Ashley Cole. Both great players but their own wrecking balls at time.
But this fella here, Suarez is out there on his own.
One day, everything he has now will be gone, memories of how good he once was, will be just that, memories.
If he finished his career tomorrow he would be remembered for all the wrong things.
Cheating, biting a player, a complete disregard for fair play by blatantly cheating to knock Ghana out of a World Cup, and now this is added to it.
The list continues to grow, never mind the game to game diving etc.
If it ended tomorrow he would be remembered with bitter hate.
For completely letting his teammates, club, fans down, just the game itself.
And Liverpool are left trying to defend a racist. Not exactly something that would attract many players to the club.
I realize that he has high views of himself and thinks he's all that, when his career ends, he will be remembered for all the wrong things, not for the player he was, or for the ability he thinks he possesses. But in pure hate.
He'd want to grow up and grow up fast, it's ok at home isn't acceptable. He's 24 years old, it's just not good enough.
