Still, Suarez is an idiot and a disgrace. He's right up there with the attention seeking youtube "shoot the laptop," uh, "father."

Neither of them have done Liverpool FC any favours. Suarez has shown himself to be quite possibly the biggest moron in the Premiership (quite an achievement!) and Dalglish has shown himself up as a fool by his ridiculous attempts to stand by Suarez.

Just shake the dickheads hand and move on, Luis. Don't be a fool.

Eric Cantona kicked an opposing fan in the face-He played for manure again.

That was excellent.

Full Disclosure: Gooner here. No particular stake in the matter.

The stench of burnt sanctimony in the British press about this whole Suarez affair is overpowering. The press actually lap this sort of thing up but have to pretend be outraged and condemn Suarez, even to the point of tarring anyone with the racism brush who dares to defend the man.

If Suarez had been the sort of slick phony who was concerned about his image, he would have given Evra a big hug instead of a handshake. Imagine the reaction if he had done that! He would have been celebrated the world over, and even United fans might have cheered him every time he touched the ball after that. However, he clearly feels genuinely hard done by and, like Wayne Bridge, wasn't ready to let bygones be bygones. Regardless of what you think of the man, I'd rather see a genuine heartfelt snub than an insincere hug.

Personally, I think an 8 match ban was excessive. Seeing how potentially career-ending, bone or skull-crushing fouls and deliberate kicks to the head to prone players are punished with bans half as long as that or less, I find it damn hard to understand how what Suarez did was so much worse.

By all accounts, the man is not a racist but used a word ('Negrito') that's perfectly innocent in his own culture, but which was perceived as worse than it was intended. A simple 2 match ban would have sent a plenty strong message that it wasn't tolerated in England. There was no need to make him a sacrificial lamb.

The outrage over this whole incident is phony in my opinion, and absurd overreactions over trivialities like this do nothing to combat racism. Quite the reverse, I would think.

P.S. Small detail -- look closely at the (non-)handshake incident. I think Evra is lowering his hand just as Suarez comes by. It might well be that Suarez decided to skip him on the spur of the moment because of that.

it doesn't fit the narrative the English press are pushing at the moment which is Suarez is a racist and liverpool are a racist club for supporting Suarez.

but he has priors in being an asshole. Here he is when playing for Ajax, biting an PSV Eindhoven player for which the poor misunderstood Luis was suspended for 7 games..

He has every right not to shake hands with Evra