Luis expected to start against Brighton on sunday. Hopefully Gus Poyet gets a good reception from the crowd after publicly standing by Innocent Luis through this horrifying public accusation

Uruguay president Jose Mujica defended Liverpool striker Luis Suarez against charges of racism in a radio interview on Thursday.

"Suarez is not a racist and never will be," Mujica said, adding that the Uruguay international needed to "feel from a distance the human affection that small and great Uruguay has for him."

The Uruguay international was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Manchester United player Patrice Evra. He was then widely criticized last weekend when he refused to shake Evra's hand in their first meeting since the suspension. Evra is black.

Suarez apologized for the snub the following day, when manager Kenny Dalglish also said sorry for his reaction to the non-handshake. The club's shirt sponsor spoke of its disappointment in Suarez's behaviour.

Mujica told the weekly magazine Busqueda that Suarez had received an "exaggerated" punishment.

"Some don't understand that he (Suarez) didn't study diplomatic protocol. He's a great kid on the pitch, a humble person who came from poverty. For this, we love him."

In handing out the eight-match ban, an independent panel of the English Football Association rejected Suarez's defense that the word "negro" in Uruguay and other parts of Latin America is inoffensive in certain situations and used as a "friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown-skinned."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...w/11920650.cms

The actual President of the Country is backing Suarez.

Uruguay president Jose Mujica defended Liverpool striker Luis Suarez against charges of racism in a radio interview on Thursday.

"Suarez is not a racist and never will be," Mujica said, adding that the Uruguay international needed to "feel from a distance the human affection that small and great Uruguay has for him."

The Uruguay international was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Manchester United player Patrice Evra. He was then widely criticized last weekend when he refused to shake Evra's hand in their first meeting since the suspension. Evra is black.

Suarez apologized for the snub the following day, when manager Kenny Dalglish also said sorry for his reaction to the non-handshake. The club's shirt sponsor spoke of its disappointment in Suarez's behaviour.

Mujica told the weekly magazine Busqueda that Suarez had received an "exaggerated" punishment.

"Some don't understand that he (Suarez) didn't study diplomatic protocol. He's a great kid on the pitch, a humble person who came from poverty. For this, we love him."

In handing out the eight-match ban, an independent panel of the English Football Association rejected Suarez's defense that the word "negro" in Uruguay and other parts of Latin America is inoffensive in certain situations and used as a "friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown-skinned."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...w/11920650.cms

The actual President of the Country is backing Suarez.

Just saw somewehere that Money May is not to happy with the treatment of Paddy looks like Floyd may have to choke another bitch Ortiz style

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He will have to go through the entire Uruguayan Nation, all the Ajax fans, and all the Liverpool fans first. And considering he's already past it...

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Just a few of my fav black sportsmen

U MAD LUIS

Nathan why you posting that Fraud for??? Is it not bad enough that we have a thread dedicated to a racist

Nice to see this thread is still being bumped to the top of the new posts page when I'm not online. Good work legend killer

No worries my son doing my bit For black sportsmen all over the world they deserve a fair shout aswell wouldn't you agree???

Yes, and what better place to put them than the Prince's thread

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Couldn't agree more

Poor Kid you can see he is moving his head as far as he can away and putting on that fake smile

Suarez's nephew

The kid doesn't look to happy about that but who can blame him

Seriously?