FIFA to Investigate Suarez biting allegation – picture and video don’t lie FIFA

FIFA has announced it will investigate the latest allegations of biting against Luis Suarez with Liverpool’s Uruguay striker likely to face a lengthy ban if found guilty.

Suarez appeared to bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini towards the end of Uruguay’s 1 – 0, leaving teeth-marks on the defender’s shoulder.

A FIFA spokesperson said: "We are awaiting the official match reports and will gather all the necessary elements in order to evaluate the matter."

FIFA's disciplinary code sets a maximum ban of 24 matches or two years, but the longest ban in World Cup history was eight games for Italy's Mauro Tassotti for breaking Spain's Luis Enrique's nose in 1994 with an elbow.

Suarez has twice been banned for biting opponents - for 10 matches in 2013 for his clash with Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic and in 2010 he was given a seven-game ban while playing for Ajax for sinking his teeth into PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal.

FIFA's disciplinary code allows action to be taken retrospectively via video evidence even if the incident has been seen by the referee.

Chiellini tried to show referee Marco Rodriguez the mark but no action was taken, and he believes the authorities must now look back at what happened and punish Suarez.

He told Sky Italia: “Suarez has bitten me and the referee saw it, but then there is the need to have the courage to take decisions.

“We will see if there is the courage to utilise the TV images to ban him.”

Except FIFA is blind, the whole world saw the pictures and the video. So we wait to see. 

This will be the mother of all FIFA BAN. This is the third time he is doing this. The punishment has to fit the number of times and the degree. This is the World Cup please.