From his book: Suarez blasted Premier League football, where you can break someones leg and not be sanctioned, and added that biting appalls a lot of people, but it is relatively inoffensive or at least it was in the incidents involving me. None of my bites were like that of [boxer] Mike Tyson to Evander Holyfield, but no one cares about that. Of the three bites, Suarez said that his wife, Sofia, asked him What on Earth were you thinking? after his first bite earned him the nickname of the Cannibal of Ajax. In that instance, Suarez was handed a seven-match ban by the Dutch FA and fined by his club for biting Bakkal during an Eredivisie match. In an interview with The Guardian, which excerpted the book last month, Suarez said everyone has different ways of dealing with pressure and tension. Its also normal that a striker is irritable and on edge, Suarez wrote. For those 90 minutes on the pitch, life is irritating. I get irritated when a defender pushes up against me from behind. I get irritated when I miss chances. Defenders know that, too. In the Premier League, when I played against someone like Philippe Senderos at Fulham when Martin Jol was their manager, I knew the drill. About five minutes into the game, Senderos would step on the back of my ankle when the ball had gone. Ah, sorry, he would say. I just thought, Yeah, Jol has told you what Im like and has told you to do that. It seems strange to say it after a third incident, but I have improved, I am calmer.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:08:48 +0000
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