Why suarez bite

In , Suarez was benched for seven games for another bite. He's earned the nickname the 'cannibal' for his toothy antics. He is also a noted racist, and crushed Ghana's World Cup hopes with a flagrant intentional handball, in case you were looking for more reasons to hate him. Luis Suarez may be kind of repulsive, but human-on-human biting isn't actually all that uncommon. A National Institutes of Health study found that human bites were the third most-treated kind of mammal bites in the emergency room, behind dog and cat bites, accounting for anywhere between percent of bite cases.

That's a not-insignificant number of human bites. The study exclusively examined "occlusive bites"—the intentional teeth-on-skin aggression a la Suarez and Tyson—versus "fight bites," which occur when a fist or arm gets punctured when it slams into someone else's mouth.

Men are 12 times as likely to sustain biting injuries, and in nearly 90 percent of the cases—surprise—alcohol was involved, the study found. You're getting the picture. Men, drunk or jacked up on adrenaline, in a pub or an arena, are prone to turning into sweaty, tweaked out vampires. This still doesn't explains the why, though. While playing for Liverpool in , he was suspended for 10 games for biting Chelsea's Branislov Ivanovic on the arm:.

He was not punished during the game:. That last one left a visible bite mark. More World Cup coverage:. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Giorgio Chiellini has revealed he was quick to forgive Luis Suarez after the striker bit him because he sees a lot of himself in the Uruguay striker.

The incident occurred in a group game at the World Cup, with Suarez stunning a worldwide television audience by committing the third biting offence of his career. But Chiellini, despite calling for action to be taken at the time, was sympathetic towards Suarez when FIFA imposed a four-month ban on the then Liverpool player.

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