Uruguay striker Luis
Suarez should be banned for “as long as possible” if he is found guilty of
biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini, according to former England captain
Alan Shearer.
Liverpool forward
Suarez appeared to bite Chiellini just before Uruguay scored their winning
goal.
The Italian
certainly felt he was bitten, pulling his shirt down to show an apparent mark
on his left shoulder.
Shearer said: “The
pictures are damning and I don’t see how he can get away with it.” Former Wales
midfielder Robbie Savage added: “It is a disgrace. Suarez should never play
international football again.”
Gary Lineker said it was clear Suarez was starting to
lose his composure in the build-up to the incident.
“Suarez has clearly got a short fuse,” said the Match of
the Day presenter and former England striker.
“It was 0-0 at that stage, with not long to go and Suarez
was obviously getting frustrated. He wants to bite people when he goes mad.”
Suarez has been involved in similar incidents twice
before.
He was banned for 10 games for biting Chelsea’s
Branislav Ivanovic in April 2013 and received a seven-game suspension for
biting PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal while at Ajax in 2010.
