Luis Suarez: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

4. That Handball vs Ghana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyOt7L0LZo This is probably the most well known of Suárez's past discretions because it affected the entire footballing world and more specifically an entire continent. Luis' handball during the 2010 World Cup shocked many of us and stunned us into silence. It was at it's most basic - cheating. It was cheating even though Luis was punished accordingly by being shown the red card. In my opinion, if Gyan had stepped up and slotted the penalty calmly away we would not be speaking about this incident in such shocking terms. If he'd scored and Ghana had progressed to the semi-finals then justice would have been done, right? Well, wrong actually. Footballing justice was done - Suarez was sent off and subsequently banned and Ghana were offered the penalty. The fact Gyan missed does not make Suarez any more or less the culprit. However, miss Gyan did and Suárez became the number one most hated man in Africa - for a while at least (I say Africa because the whole of Africa was behind Ghana once the other teams had been eliminated). Many of Africa's current generation will not forgive Suárez for his very own "Hand of God" moment, nor will they remember him for anything else.