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Swain on Suarez: Serial sneak deserves a proper punishment

It would be a moment of delicious karma if Luis Suarez's latest outrage now cost him the transfer for which he has been agitating.

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FIFA have the power to extend to club football whatever suspension the game's guttersnipe must be given for again biting an opponent.

Sepp Blatter and Co, who have to be dragged kicking and screaming to tackle difficult issues, are more likely to suspend him only for international duty. That, hopefully, means the end of his World Cup.

But it should go further. Even before he tucked into Italy's Giorgio Chiellini last night, Suarez had been like a dog with a bone chewing on a feigned persecution complex in order to service his mercenary ambitions. Invited on to De Zurda, a chat show Maradona co-hosts, the Uruguayan continued his campaign to move to Barcelona.

"That match meant everything," he said of the England game. "Had we lost, we would have been out and because of everything I went through in England..." What exactly was this "everything I went through in England"?

Well, he was pilloried and banned for using racist language at an opponent and pilloried and banned for sinking his gnashers into Branislav Ivanovic.

And how did the English football industry damn Suarez for these actions? That's right. It crowned him Player of the Year as he pockets his £200,000 a week. It must be hell.

If he is – and I think we know he is – trying to make life at Liverpool so untenable it will ease a passage to La Liga, he is succeeding.

But this was Suarez's third biting incident.

His bid to cheat his way out by pretending Chiellini had attacked him was trademark. "A sneak," Chiellini called him.

A sneak who does not deserve to prosper.

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