Newcastle Scheduled To Be First Meal For Luis Suarez After Biting Ban
It never rains, but it pours for Newcastle. Oh and it sometimes bites!
Adam Davy/EMPICS SportNewcastle will hope Luis Suarez has lost his appetite by the time November 1st rolls around, with the controversial Uruguay forward's comeback from an unprecedented ban for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini, coinciding with Liverpool's visit to Tyneside. Suarez was suspended for nine international matches - prematurely ending his involvement in the World Cup - and banned from all football-related activities for an incredible four months by FIFA's disciplinary after deciding to have a nibble at Chiellini's shoulder during the final round of Group D fixtures on Tuesday. It means the 27-year-old will be prohibited from training or playing for club and country and has also been forbidden from entering any football stadium for the duration of his ban, which is the third he's incurred in as many years for biting a fellow professional. Suarez will have spent 120 days in solitude before his eligible to dangle one toe inside St James' Park and will arrive with a severe case ring rust. So, realistically, Newcastle shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? False, false, false. 'Jaws' illustrated through his match-winning brace for Uruguay against England, which came precisely 28 days after he underwent knee surgery, that fitness is a non-issue for him. Unfortunately for us it's likely Suarez's grand return to Premier League action will drag us into the epicentre of one of the biggest and most layered controversies sport will conjure up in 2014. Suarez will score, it's inevitable, and our misery will be compounded with every frame being captured on camera and subsequently broadcast to television screens, laptops and tablets in every corner of the globe. It never rains, but it pours for Newcastle.