Just a quick one this, for readers who don't follow the football news, or Twitter, or unreality in general.
Luis Suarez has been suspended from international football for 9 games, and from all forms of football for 4 months. Imagine being such a moral vacuum you aren't allowed to be involved in professional football.
In fact he's been banned from all "football-related activity" for that time, which in his case presumably includes biting people.
I got the announcement from Twitter, and the details from the BBC report and analysis which also cleared up the mystery of why the Mexican referee hadn't acted immediately when Chiellini showed him the bite marks. After all, Italian is similar enough to Spanish so they ought to have been able to understand each other, and bite marks are clear enough in any language.
It turns out that the referee's nickname back home is Dracula. No wonder he took a relaxed approach. It would be like expecting a Mason to send off another Mason. Biters probably have a secret handshake and everything, or rather a secret nibble.
The Uruguayans are still carrying on as if Suarez is been immensely hard done by, having been sinisterly conspired against by a cabal of Europeans. Perhaps someone around them could explain the difference between conspiring to do something and being massively, overwhelmingly happy when it happens.
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