Luis Suarez - Read all about it...

Well he's in the papers again.. actually when is he ever out of the papers. Everything he does, or indeed doesn't do is back-page news and also sadly sometimes front page news as well.

It's fair to say since we signed him 2 years ago he had been loved and loathed in equal measure. If you read the annoyingly reasoned article by Gary Neville he made much the same point.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2261403/Gary-Neville-Luis-Suarez-nasty-little-player-youd-want-team.html

The kind of player you want in your side because of the level of skill and goal threat he possesses, but I suspect that he didn't play for Liverpool my rose-tinted glasses may view him a little differently.

It seems controversy will always follow him around and in fairness this latest one - admitting to a dive in the Stoke game earlier this season - is a little odd, but shall we say not quite so serious as some of the other things he's got himself involved with. He hasn't bitten anyone this time round anyway.

Now the incident in question was really odd. From my recollection it wasn't really obvious it was a dive until he actually appealed for a penalty. He sort of stopped, stumbled and then just sort of fell over. At first glance it looked as if he'd just stumbled, but on the replays you saw that it was a pretty odd attempt to win a penalty.

Now he hasn't done himself any favours admitting this.. although it was blindingly obvious anyway. Brendan Rodgers has condemned  his actions (diving, not admitting it) and the club will be taking action, presumably some kind of fine. You can't exactly see him being dropped.

Now it's not in the same league as Roy Keane who admitted shattering Alf Inge Haaland's leg to sell more copies of his book. I should again clarify - he admitted it to sell more books, crippling the man with a view to selling more books a few years down the line would require a level of evil and foresight that even Roy Keane lacks.

Quite how this will effect Suarez is unclear at this stage - this burst of honesty probably will give referee's less reason to give him decisions in the future, but as he doesn't get any anyway that doesn't matter too much.

The tabloids will froth at the mouth at the dirty cheating foreigner, not like out good old British players who never ever cheat, or admit to it anyway. But he's Public Enemy no. 1 as far as the sports pages in the tabloids are concerned anyway, so again no change there.


So with a bit of luck it'll just be tomorrow's chip paper - or whatever the modern equivalent is these days