Nah man, I don't buy the 'but it's entertainment!!!!1' line, football is entertaining enough as it is. You just can't do stuff like that on a football field. It's on a whole different level to just throwing elbows around. What if, instead of biting Chiellini, he just (completely unprovoked) gave him a right hook to floor him as the cross came over? Even that is not on the same level as smurfing taking a chomp out of him! Mike Tyson did that and got his boxing licence rescinded amid humungous uproar, all in a sport where the whole idea is to cause enough physical damage to the opponent that he gets knocked unconscious. Biting 3 different players would even get you a life ban on a rugby field.

Think about Chiellini. He was going out there expecting to play football, not get bitten on the shoulder by some Uruguayan twat. And I don't like the Italian team. Suarez isn't even that great a player. I think Thierry Henry was better, and maybe Denis Bergkamp. There will be many more, superior players who will replace him, and more importantly do it without being a diving, playacting, handballing, biting, walking red card in the process. Not a great loss to football.

Re Zidane headbutt: Does nobody remember the world of football (especially the French) going absolutely nuclear with rage in the immediate aftermath of what he did? The back pages were just a collection of synonyms for 'disgrace'. It wasn't until it came out how he was provoked that people started to sympathise with him (and many still don't). Luis just up and bit the guy(s) out of nowhere, for no reason whatsoever.