RAWK can be bizarre at times like this, and some of their posts are disturbing. I suppose this place can be like that too, at times. It seems whenever a Liverpool player crosses the line, they're quick to bring up Keane and Cantona.
Difference is, for me, that Keane tackle permanently tainted his legacy in my eyes. A vengeful act of violence, and any punishment was acceptable. I still think he got off very lightly, I thought he was going to get a permanent ban at the time, and I wouldn't have argued against that (then or now).
Cantona's incident, I was somewhat more understanding of. I can't get my head around how some people feel that by attending a football match they're somehow magically entitled to shout the most vile abuse on the planet at players. Behaviour and actions that would get you either locked up or knocked out in any other environment. That said, what Cantona did was wrong, and he deserved a lengthy ban.
In the past few years, Suarez has been found guilty of: Cheating in a World Cup elimination match with the handball incident, bringing the integrity of fair play into question, and eliminating a team who probably deserved to advance. He's bitten 3 players now. He's been found guilty of racially abusing of a player. And on top of this all his other cynical antics and diving, the same type of behavior I've gladly and severely criticised Young, Nani, Ronaldo and other United players for in the past.
I hope FIFA throw the book at Suarez. Like it or not, it seems every premier league weekend I catch a glimpse of a player cursing. But when it was Wayne Rooney cursing, he got a ban. Why? Because he's a huge player on the world stage, children look up to him, blah blah. I accept that. Well now the Premier League player of the year, Liverpool and Uruguay idol, one of the stars of the world cup, has lost his mind and gone and bit someone (again - after being punished twice in his career for it) during a world cup match. It's many things, but certainly not hypocrisy, to hope and expect the punishment is severe.