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Comment: Fifa should bite the bullet and ban Luis Suarez for a year
This repeat offender has no excuse and needs to be punished

Luis Suarez is once again on the back pages for all the wrong reasons. 

Tuesday night’s game between Uruguay and Italy will forever go down as the game when Suarez bit Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in the shoulder.

That alone is a disgraceful act but factor in the fact that it is the third time the Uruguayan has bitten someone during a match and what should happen next becomes clear. 

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