Luis Suarez: None Of The Bites Were Like Mike Tyson

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, who has bit three different player’s ears during soccer matches, believes none of his bites were anything like Mike Tyson’s bite of Evander Holyfield

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Luis Suarez has had quite the career. He blew up during the 2010, leading Uruguay into the semifinals where they fell 3-2 to the Netherlands (then lost to Germany 3-2 in the third-place game). He soon joined Liverpool and last season, he set the team’s goal-scoring record and led the Premier League with 31 goals.

Playing with Uruguay once again in the 2014 World Cup, Suarez was caught biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguays’ 1-0 victory.

Suarez served a 10-game ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in 2013 and was suspended for seven games for biting PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal while he was with Ajax in 2010.

Although Suarez admits he had made mistakes, he still believes he was treated too harshly.

“I made a mistake. It was my fault. It was the third time I did this to myself and I needed help,” Suarez said via Sport as translated by Deadspin. “However, he also understands that he has been made an example of and “maybe I was an easy target.” The ‘Pistolero’ was particularly critical of the philosophy in English football, where “you can break someone’s leg and not be punished.” Luis explains that “a bite scares a lot of people, but it is relatively harmless, or at least the incidents in which I was involved were.” The footballer spoke of an extreme case to make clear that “none of the bites were like Mike Tyson on Evander Holyfield, but nobody cares about that.”

Maybe if Suarez were talking like this after the first or even the second bite, he could get away with comments like this but he’s now been punished for the same infraction on three different occasions.

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