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There's a huge double standard going on here. Players routinely go in for - illegal - tackles that threaten other player's careers and get no ban at all even retrospectively. I'd much rather se them punished severely.
I remember when Defoe bit Mascherano, I don't recall a single one of you lot espousing your faux disgust or calling for him to banned for a year.
There is a big difference here. Tackling is part of the game. I would say that most of us on here have played at some level, and I would doubt that those of us who have cannot say that they have got a little bit frustrated, or get a little over passionate and gone in for a tackle a little harder than you should have. I do not want to see career threatening tackles every week, but an over-exuberant tackle is just an extension of the game.
At no point have I ever, in any situation, thought to myself "I'm going to bite him". It is not part of football, and is completely inhumane. To do it once is deplorable. To do it twice is IMO unforgivable. To do it a third time is (after 2 lengthy bans for previous offences) is the end of the road, especially, and this is pure assumption, that looking at the incident he knew exactly what he was doing, he went over too Chiellini with the premeditated aim of biting him.
It has been said that he was frustrated and worried about being eliminated from the competition. How comes he managed to control his cannibalistic tendencies when the title was slipping away from Liverpool?