I dont buy into the damaged reputation theory simply cos of Piara Powar's opinion, an opinion that everyone seems to have jumped on the bandwagon with. And the FA didn't say there was no doubt he was guilty, they decided his evidence was unreliable and inconsistant and completely rebuked his reasons for calling Evra a negro as they decided they cant be true, not based on anything else or taking into account his own race or culture. As well as that they decided Evra was a credible witness even though he has wrongly accused people of racially abusing him before. They essentially took Evra's word over Suarez's with little or no evidence to back it up, in a court of law any decent lawyer would have the case thrown out completely in an hour but because this is a sport related matter they have to go with the black guy, if a black guy plays the race card then we cant be disagreeing with him now can we?! I dont think the ban would be increased if an appeal failed? I didnt hear that anywhere. Perhaps the most laughable thing about the whole farce is Evra admitting he doesn't think Suarez is a racist and he himself actually racially abused Suarez in Spanish, where's Evra's 8 game ban? Oh cos he's black he cant be a racist eh? There's far more to suggest Suarez isn't racist than to suggest he is, for Christ sake his grandfather's black!