"Just under a month ago Klose did have a goal he scored disallowed. Im not saying every footballer should do this, but it does happen, and it is something to admire. Nevertheless Im glad lfc won"
"Well said alan, i think you just said everything everyone( well liverpool fans) have been thinking and saying, just because its suarez hes an easy target, if it was anyone else it would be a good goal for playing on! >:/ YNWA"
"They were very quick to call him a CHEAT on ESPN. I agree on this article. Same in game against Ghana - What would other so-called 'Honest Players' have done? Classy Mansfield manager doesn't see him as a cheat that's good enough for me. Maybe just because he's not a Suarez bandwagon Jumper like half the country!"
"Iffy goals have always been a part of football, there have been many of them down the years. The problem with this one is it's Luis the media's current pantomime villan.
The same media said nothing about Henry's handball against Ireland and when the beach ball incident occurred it was written off as just bad luck.Fair play to Mansfield for not blaming Luis. "
"What was said on ESPN was disgreceful. Offer an opinion yes, but to to call what happened "the work of a cheat" was most unprofessional from a so-called commentator. Nasty. Well done Daily Telegraph and Paul Cox"
"Captainfantastic "well done to whoever the author is" I assume that this is a joke. Alan Hansen? The best central defender we've ever had? If you don't know him, you don't follow lfc. I'm hoping it was a joke anyway. "
"I think LFC should be doing something about that weasel jon champions comments in regards to Luis Suarez calling him a cheat on live tv was disgraceful. We need to defend our players. You cant knock ferguson he wouldnt have stood for that BS if it was one of his players. This incident makes the club look weak and useless. "
"Captain fantastic, read the full artical then you would have, this is why many fans get the wrong end of the story line. I'll bet you'll look next time lol."
"IF A DEFENDER HANDLES THE BALL IN THE BOX AND IS MISSED BY THE OFFICIALS.....WOULD HE THEN RUN TO THE REFEREE AND ADMIT TO THIS AND ASK THE REF TO AWARD A PENALTY. YEAH RIGHT. LUIS ....THE ENEMY ARE CLUTCHING AT STRAWS NOW TO BREAK YOU. TESTAMENT TO YOUR ABILITY AND TALENT....THEY CAN'T TOUCH YOU ON THE FIELD."
"Well said Jockey. I just wish it happened against the Mancs. I would record Fergie's reaction knowing he could do nothing about it and listen to it forever while i laughed myself to death."
"Fair line of argument. However, no footballer would ever ask for a goal to be disallowed? Not true, happened some of weeks ago: Miro Klose, German forward playing for Lazio, did exactly that. Would have been the lead for Lazio..."
"I can only agree with what has already been said, a good responce to the gutter press trying to tarnish further a mans reputation, ESPN should apologise publicly for the slur of calling Luis Suarez a cheat. gutter press trying make something out of nothing, shame on them."
"well done Andre Mariner - he did not think it was DELIBERATE and it was not, hence the goal stood! Suarez scored a perfectly good goal v Everton (REMEMBER!) which would have won us the game - flagman gave it as off-side when it clearly WAS NOT - touche!"
"tarantino and jayejay to captainfantastics defence the website does not make clear who wrote the article, in fact i had to ctrl f 'alan' to see where his name was mentioned... which to my suprise was this little section about the tags of the article and to be honest i did not know they existed here and why would i when the actual article finishes well before little line with the tags... "
"additionally tarantino i have no idea who alan hansen but that does not mean im not a liverpool supporter and its quite a rubbish thing to say so. obviously not everyone has supported liverpool since their creation up until now and its up to those people how in depth they want to research about the club but that does not make them any less a fan just because they know less than someone else."
"I'm a LFC fan and i'm fine with what he did. However, this is supposed to be the truth but M.Klose said he handballed for one of his goals. Nobody knew-it had been given!"
"neymar-is-god
I'm not saying your any less of a fan but it has to be said that Hansen is a big name not to know about and someone whose face is still very much in the limelight due to his MotD appearances. That being said I reckon he'd have a good laugh at never being heard of on a Liverpool Fansite. lol"
"...Good article on. It's something that has happened time and time again on every football pitch in the world. There are different types of players who would react in different ways some (very few) would admit to it accidental or not and some like Suarez would play to the whistle. Not for us to judge other's choices in either case I think the goal would have stood."
"agree with Alan! Luis was totally innocent, responsibility fell on ref direction at all, Luis is not a cheater as any LFC supporter was sure of El Pistolero honesty. Forget this bad incident Luis and keep delighting your fans! YNWA Luis Suarez"
"Neymar, it is only a little bit of whoever writes the artical, his name,you don't need to know his adress and telephone number as well do you. Sarcastic it may sound but not intended but do you get the point."
"Actually it happend not so many months ago that Miroslav Klose asked referee to disallow his goal he made with his hand. From corner sittuation. Iam happy that Luis didnt because we won and thats what matters. It could have being even worse if Carras hand ball in penalty box would have count."
"ESPN and John Champion should publicly apologise. How many times has Luis been fouled in the pen area and got nothing. Luis has the full support of us all at LFC and that is all that matters.YNWA"
"It is common knowledge in the USA that ESPN have always been up the Glazers arse. Can we as LFC fans expect any different. Well said Jockey. I have suggested that the PL not employ the services of match officials anymore....teams will manage the games themselves. Administrators must apologise for thier shortsightedness in not trusting players and managers all these years."
"To those Manchester United fans hell bent on calling Luis Suarez s, let me ask them. Did Antoni Valencia run to the ref and say he made a mistake when he fell 4ft in front of Glen Johnson to win a penalty? Did Berbatov run to the ref when he fell over when not touched by Daniel Agger in Jan 2011? The answer is no."
"Virtually the first word out of the Sky reporter's mouth was "cheat", closely followed by "Saurez". He deserves an apolology for all the ignoramouses who have labelled him as such. "
"well said Mr Hansen, I think Mr Rodgers needs to come out and back Suarez!! Mr Champions comments were cheap and disgraceful he has become an easy target and its about time LFC and Mr Rodgers back up Suarez"
"I love you Alan.. Spot on, exactly what I thought when the incident happened!! Suarez is an amazing talent and people don't talk about that, but soon as something simmilar to this happens, everyone in the country is grabbing him by the throut..
We love you KING LUIS SUAREZ. Forver RED I hope..!!"
"no talk of the way LFC have been "cheated" against with crazy calls by ref's in this season alone, Luis's is a propper striker, first thought is "how can I get the ball in the net". 99.9 percent of strikers would do the same thing."
"If that was cheating and wasnt seen by the ref, what do you call what goes on at corners, every central defender in the league is a cheat so with all the pulling pushing obstruction etc and the official's see this happening? and I also agree with a lot of people that the ball hit his hand not the other way round."
"Thanks Alan, Luis scored a disallowed winner against Everton and I never saw Everton players saying it was a goal, they influencing the ref to disallow it and he did, but it was a goal, he has been denied genuine penalties and we have suffered. so whats the fuss 2day and yesterday. YWNA LUIS."
"Brilliant and unbiased article..... According to Stratchan, you don't park on the yellow line, get away with it & then phone the council up to tell them you owe 85 quid.... Suarez almost didn't celebrate the goal at all...he had the most sober celebration I have ever seen.... Let him keep terrorizing defences. YNWA."
"at last someone with sense nothing would have been said if it hadnt been our luis good job he has broad shoulders ignore them all luis and keeping putting the ball in the net y n w a"
"Great article. The way I see it, this goal that was allowed has now oet the goal that was disallowed for "oide" in the Merseyside Derby. It's a shame the media doesn't bring that up."
"Great to read articles based on on simple common sense, all's fair in love and war they say. You win some and you lose some, you take the rough with the smooth, that's life. We are all imperfect beings, the fierceness in compeive sport, the determination to survive, to win, to overcome, to triumph just takes over, that's the magic of it. "
"Could Suarez take the ESPN reporter who instantly called him a cheat to court for slander? haha and did anyone see the ball hit one of our players in the head when he was down ....that boy is lucky be be alive ! why are we not discussing that , it was a life threatening situation and not a dickiebird has been said ;)
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"Right you are Alan. And credit to Mansfield gaffer, Cox, who showed pure class with his aftermatch comments. It would have been easy for him to jump on the Luis bashing bandwagon, but he went against the masses and wasn't having any of it."
"Awesome article - absolutely spot on. I play rec league and sometimes a ref will ask me openly if I got the last touch before a ball went out. If they do then I will tell the truth and not lie, but even at rec level I am not going to volunteer that information if I'm not asked. Any professional who does that is, quite bluntly, unprofessional. "
"Well expressed Mr Hansen. It appears that Suarez is being victimised and criticised as compared to other top PL players and even managers so seem that the law or the FA rules do not apply to them .RVP and SAF- RVP plainly elbowed a player beginning of the season and he got away. SAF verbally abused a referee the other day and he gets away with it too. Leave Suarez well alone."
"I listened to mansfields manager who said the fourth official stated the referee and linesman both saw the hand ball but deemed it not intentional so technicaly it was not a foul if it happened to be a defender who hanled in the area a ball that came at him like the one at suarez and a penalty was given ther would be arguments about that also."
"As far as the comments calling Suarez a cheat as was said by the commentator on match of the day who by the way should be made to appolagise were all the Everton players in the Derby also cheats when Suarez scored a perfectly great goal for not going to the Referee and saying hang on ref you should allow that goal it wasnt oide i dont think so "
"In the eyes of the English press and opposing fans, players and managers, when it's Suarez, a different rule ought to be applied. I was in fits of laughter over Nevile's dive during the derby match last year. His coach (Moyes) had branded Suarez a 'diver' before the match; and here his CAPTAIN, a veteran of the game, doing exactly what Moyes had condemned... very funny indeed. "
"People in this country hound Suarez as they claim he is racist. What they fail to see is that it is them who are slinging round the abuse and insults. Pathetic and jelous in my view. One of the best player around at the moment and i a joy to watch. YNWA Suarez."
"weas liverpool fans know suarez did no wrong, but hey, that's not going to stop the witch hunt against him from the manc loving media, also, come wednesday or thursday you know fergie will be giving his tuppence worth over the incident, demonizing our luis of course."
"very true!suarez did his job,the officials did not simple as!i see the medias (especially sky sports)anti suarez witch hunt was in full flow all day!they wont be happy till they drive him out of the epl.they love reporting bad news about him!ynwa luis!"
"Well said these people in the media just can't stop ridiculing Louis Suarez a world class player trying to ply his trade in the EPL we should be honoured but instead we pick up on everything they do soon foreign players won't want to play here then we will be back to kick and rush football crossing high balls into the area for the 6 ft number 9 to nod into the net instead of the beautiful game "
"when it was Maradona it was hand of god....and when Suarez did which can be considered as a reflex action of a human being he became a cheat.... WHAT A STRANGE WORLD??????"
"Sir Alex and his FA have been waiting to make this happen for a while... Or is it just another blatant coincidence that this happened right before the game with manure?... "
"It is clear from watching clip that suarez acknowledges handball by showing hand to crowd behind goal.He slashes ball into the net like strikers do when goal is oide and disallowed.His hand kissing is usual celebration, not gloating. Hansens's article is measured and accurate. About time vilification of Suarez ends or we'll lose him to abroad!"
"Don't these sados get tired of slating suarez for everything he does. If he farts they'll probably make a big deal out of that too. Suarez is LFC throughout so all the haters say what u want but he's our legend in the making. YNWA"
"I can't blame Luis for that goal. He did his job well scoring that winner. Thank you very much. The referee didn't do his job well enough. He's the one to blame. Thank you very much. "
"AYE RIGHT!! Leave Suarez alone already!! Ferguson and MAN U didnt do the "Decent" thing in 2005 i think it was V Spurs when roy Carroll not only didnt save a lob into his net he through it out.Everyone except the Ref saw it! it was laughable.Fergie said we play to the whistle...Go out and thrash the Mancs on Sunday Louis!!!YNWA!!"
"Very well said. Suarez scored an honest goal, although I can understand why supporters of the other club might be upset - I know we certainly would be if the tables were turned.
Luis is a class act, even with all the baggage that comes with him."
"TO RODLFC1963 I WAS GOING TOO MENTION ABOUT THAT SEEMS THAT GOT SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET PRETTY SHARPISH MMMMM I WONDER WHY, I STILL REMEMBER IT PABLO MENDEZ GREAT LOB MIND YOU CARROL WAS ANOTHER USELESS MANC S KEEPER,ITS A SUAREZ WITCH HUNT ALL THE TIME"
"TO RODLFC1963 I WAS GOING TOO MENTION ABOUT THAT SEEMS THAT GOT SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET PRETTY SHARPISH MMMMM I WONDER WHY, I STILL REMEMBER IT PABLO MENDEZ GREAT LOB MIND YOU CARROL WAS ANOTHER USELESS MANC S KEEPER,ITS A SUAREZ WITCH HUNT ALL THE TIME"
"It is quite amazing that there is so much hype about Suarez handball goal but Hernandes was given superstar status when he scored the winner against zChelsea coming from an oide position and he was arrogantly proud about in his interview. How selective are the British press."
"Alan,
I can't not agree with you more than this. I think he has shown quite many times to retain the balance and keep going. I have seen no one mention about it. Man, he is a striker. His job is to score goal and avoid incident as much as possible. To me, he has done his job brilliantly. "
"The problem is with the English media. 'Commentator' John Hansen's "..that's the work of a cheat" re. Suarez, was disgraceful. Ashley Young's blatant dive was described, by the same man, as "...unfortunate"."
"I reckon the Britiah press are made up of stupid people.. and it seems ESPN are no better.. grow up, and get a life, you talentless and clueless bunch of pathetic idiots!!!
BRENDAN, TAKE UP THIS ISSUE AS FERGIE WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE DONE IF IT CONCERNS HIS TEAM!!"
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