10 Shocking Incidents Luis Suarez Wants You To Forget

Something to get your teeth stuck into.

By Grahame Herbert /

Luis Suarez, the controversial Liverpool and Uruguay footballer, has played a career filled with unsavoury incidents. The troubled striker has became the most talked about footballer at Brazil's World Cup 2014 - for all the wrong reasons. The moment he buried his teeth into the shoulder of Italy's Giorgio Chiellini will go down as one of the defining images of this tournament. Sadly, this is just standard form for Suarez, as we expose 10 disgraceful incidents he would want you to forget. Firstly we should note that Suarez is a good footballer. There hasn't been many winner's medals, but he did bag 31 goals for his club in the 2013 / 2014 season, leading to fevered speculation that he is on the precipice of joining one of the big Spanish clubs at Barcelona or Real Madrid. That big money move could now be in doubt, with Suarez's World Cup bite perhaps being a timely reminder of what a liability he can be on the pitch. A liability indeed, he has missed over 18 matches for his club in the past few years due to time serving bans for indiscipline. The nature of those bans, including the full shocking quotes, will be detailed later in this feature. The fact that Suarez could be such a good player is possibly why his career is almost tragic to look upon. Terms like "flawed genius" have been banded about, now the general consensus tends to be "outright disgrace". Aged 27 he should be in the peak of his play, but is instead creating a legacy away from goals and winner medals, he seems far more likely to be remembered for any one of the following incidents he inexcusably created for himself.