{"id":18923,"date":"2011-12-21T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/liverpool-players-support-suarez\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:56:42","slug":"liverpool-players-support-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/21\/liverpool-players-support-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool players support Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Luis Suarez warms up with his team-mates before playing Wigan<\/span> <\/p>\n

Luis Suarez’s Liverpool team-mates have issued a statement<\/a> in “total support” of the striker following his Football Association punishment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suarez was banned for eight games and fined \u00a340,000 by the FA for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra at Anfield on 15 October<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool players also warmed up for Wednesday night’s game at Wigan wearing t-shirts in support of Suarez.<\/p>\n

They said they were “shocked and angered” at the FA verdict.<\/p>\n

“We totally support Luis and we want the world to know that,” the statement continued. “We know he is not racist.<\/p>\n

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There must have been a temptation to throw the book at Suarez and send a strong anti-racist message to the world. From a South American perspective, the length of the ban might be taken to indicate that this is what the disciplinary board has done<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tim Vickery<\/span> South American football expert<\/span> Read Tim Vickery’s column<\/a><\/div>\n

“We have lived, trained and played with Luis for almost 12 months and we don’t recognise the way he has been portrayed.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to support Luis through this difficult period, and, as a popular and respected friend of all his team-mates, he will not walk alone.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool players, including Suarez, warmed up for the game at the DW Stadium in t-shirts featuring a picture of Suarez with his name and number seven on the back.<\/p>\n

Suarez, who denied the allegations<\/a>, has 14 days to appeal against the decision after a six-day FA hearing found he used “insulting words”, which included a reference to Evra’s colour.<\/p>\n

Viv Anderson, the first black player to represent England, also commented on Suarez’s punishment.<\/p>\n

He told BBC North West Tonight: “If somebody said something that, in their culture isn’t as bad as we take it to be, you have to allow for that.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, Uruguay captain Diego Lugano backed his national team-mate.<\/p>\n

“I can’t believe it. They’re making a big mistake,” Lugano said.<\/p>\n

“Luis is a victim. I can’t understand how a player like Evra can do this. He is breaking the codes of football.<\/p>\n

“We all know what kind of person Luis is and the values he has,” added Paris St Germain defender Lugano on his personal website.<\/p>\n

“It’s obvious that in England there’s a racism problem they’re trying to eradicate. That’s good but this sentence has no solid arguments.”<\/p>\n

Suarez, who has won 54 caps for his country, enjoyed success with Uruguay in the summer, scoring in the final as they won the 2011 Copa America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Uruguayan Embassy has declined to comment on Suarez’s punishment and said they wanted “no involvement” in what they described as a “private matter”.<\/p>\n

In November, Brighton manager and former Uruguay international Gus Poyet came out in support of his fellow countryman<\/a>, saying Suarez was “100% not a racist”.<\/p>\n

Poyet told talkSPORT<\/a>: “England needs to understand how the rest of the world lives. If we have that understanding, easy.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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