Distin: Suarez could have broken my ankle

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Sylvain Distin took a dig at Luis Suarez's controversial "tackle" in Sunday's derby draw which the French defender feels he was lucky to escape without serious injury.

The 34-year-old defender was dumped on the Goodison turf in after the Liverpool striker raked his studs down his ankle but he took to Twitter to assure fans that he had suffered no lasting damage.

"Thanks for the concern," he Tweeted. "My ankle is all good considering it could have been broken."

Having put Mirallas out of the game with a stamp top the foot in the first half,
Suarez rakes his studs down Distin's ankle

Ex-referee Graham Poll wrote of the incident on the Daily Mail website: "He (Suarez) was correctly booked - his second 'offence' - in the 71st minute when he showed his bad side by treading on the Achilles of Sylvain Distin.

"Suarez indicated his studs had caught in the turf causing the accidental clash. Replays showed no such slip and he was cautioned for the fourth time in the league this season."

Quotes or other material sourced from Daily Mail



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Anto Byrne
1 Posted 01/11/2012 at 05:06:14
Replays indicate the tackles were late and reckless and Pienaar gets sent off for silly nothing fouls. What can you say but so far this season the decisions are not even and the way it's going, I expect more to go against us while the so-called money teams squabble for the top 5 spots and seemingly get the calls, eg, the QPR and Arsenal game where Arteta was clearly offside. It's time for cameras and referral system for contentious umpiring. Was Anichebe's effort over the line? Replays suggest it was.
Mark Lennon
2 Posted 01/11/2012 at 06:56:51
Vile! Can't the FA now jump in and ban him for it? It's clearly intended.

He just does not stop making a mockery of our league and its rules. Punish the little rat properly and maybe he will stop, or even better, fuck off!!
Matt Garen
3 Posted 01/11/2012 at 07:09:17
I usually do not condone violence, but Suarez is different. My greatest wish would be that for the return fixture we register Big Dunc as a player and in the 87 min bring him on at centre half and he kicks the buck toothed inbred racist fuckwit clean in the face.
Steve Cotton
4 Posted 01/11/2012 at 08:00:42
To be honest, the things that everyone who watches football knows about Suarez is that he is a racist, a diver, and a cheat... only now can be add dangerous and malicious tackler – an honour more accustomed to Stevie Me or Jimmy Case.

The one side of his game where we didn't think he was despicable is his intention to really hurt opponents with underhand dangerous tackles. In both cases, he didn't go into a straight tackle badly but he made a point of catching them when the ball had gone in a way that could have put them on the treatment table for six months.

Perhaps other managers will see this in him now and he will get his comeuppance in the near future.
Dick Fearon
5 Posted 01/11/2012 at 07:46:37
It is increasingly clear to the most ardent RS fans that they have a fantastic player who also carries a lot of disgusting baggage. His deliberate attempt to injure Distin will be long remembered by fans and fellow professionals.

Should one of the leagues hard men give him the treatment he would find little sympathy. Their problem RS is they would be dog meat without him.
Andy Meighan
7 Posted 01/11/2012 at 09:12:39
Vile specimen of a human being... As I've said on many occasions before, the most odious foreigner ever to hit these shores.

He's getting away with them type of challenges all the time and will continue to do so as long as there's weak referees around like Marriner.

And I'm sorry but I don't adhere to the fact that he's a fantastic footballer. Fantastic footballers have a bit of class about them and a bit of humility. And last time I looked he certainly never had either of those two redeeming features.
Gavin Ramejkis
8 Posted 01/11/2012 at 09:26:34
Dick the vast majority of RS (try a poll amongst any you know) are delusional revisionists and all but one of many that I know stuck to the party line of it being a late but fair challenge. I even had one claiming Mirallas was a dirty player and he blanked the foul from Suarez on him altogether claiming it didn't happen. They have no class or shame.
Anthony Jaras
9 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:46:52
I've never heard a single RS fan badmouth Suarez for anything.

He can walk on water as far as they're concerned.

Sums them up really.

Andrew Ellams
10 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:49:45
To be fair Anthony, I did come across quite a few who were ashamed of the club's reaction to the racism story. Particularly the t-shirts at Wigan.
Anthony Jaras
11 Posted 01/11/2012 at 10:53:56
I've heard a few say that too mate but only for the reaction and the t-shirts and not Suarez himself.

They still say he's innocent and it's all the refs and the FA and this conspiracy to get him out of England.

Insanity.

Andy Meighan
12 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:28:30
Well, well, well... just got this morning's rags and surprise, surprise. Old crease-head has come out and apologised for his disrespectful comments after the derby. Having watched it again, he says my comments were way over the top.

Yes, that's right, having watched it again, you'll realise that after that, initial nightmare 20 min spell for us, you were out-passed and out-played... especially after Osman had you in his pocket for 70 mins.

It sounds to me like he's been told to say this by the club's hierarchy because I don't think for one minute he's got the humility to come out with it himself. It's obvious he's been told because he's apologised to Stoke as well.

Inwardly he must be fuming having to issue this apology then again he's probably took one look at himself running 80 yards to celebrate the 'ghost goal' — as one non-match-going so-called kopite said to me on Monday, and realised how silly he looked. I did try and tell this cretin that 'ghost goal' was actually coined by Jose Mourhino. But I don't think he knew who I was talking about
Drew O'Neall
13 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:40:29
I have a red mate who condemns Suarez for diving but after being shown the 'Gerrard Diving Hypocrite' video, claimed it had been put together using CGI.
Patrick Murphy
14 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:00:28
I take it that means Cheating Gerrard's Insidiousness.

As for our RS friends, I think any of their players could take out a gun and shoot someone on the pitch and they would still deny it happened or find some lame excuse to justify it. Mentality of the herd, don't you just love it?

Tony J Williams
15 Posted 01/11/2012 at 11:38:11
Gavin, the red prick in my department is actually trying to say the Distin foul was an accident and of course he hasn't seen the Mirallas one.
Ifor Hughes
16 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:22:24
Yes, Tony, when I discussed the evil one with a Red Shite, he did not think Ratboy had tackled Mirallas at all... and as for the Distin one his eyes were on the ball throughout. (He should have gone to Specsavers, I think!)
Chris Leyland
17 Posted 01/11/2012 at 12:34:28
I'm with Gavin on this one. The vast, vast majority of red shite fans are like delusional, brained-washed scientologists. They are convinced that there was a massive FA conspiracy orchestrated by Alex Ferguson to get Suarez banned last year. That paranoia is actually fed by their club who, instead of dealing with the issue, chose to support the player with tee-shirts. Their manager at the time went out of the way to defend him and accuse the authorities of picking on him.

It has carried on this year with their constant whining about him never getting any penalties because of his reputation for being a diver. Well, it is a well-earned reputation and you reap what you sow.

I noticed that their club banned a fan for racist behaviour last year as they take a zero tolerance policy towards racism. The irony seemed lost on them at the time.

The fact is, they are a once big club in a spiral of decline. They can't accept this. Full stop. Their fans are a bunch of delusional idiots. They are managed by people who are delusional idiots and, guess what, their captain is a delusional idiot.

Denis Byrne
18 Posted 01/11/2012 at 13:24:39
Loved what Paddy Crerand said of Soz, "you wouldn't get tired of punching him would you?". Nice.
David Mason
19 Posted 01/11/2012 at 14:02:29
In reference to the Mirallas kick/stamp [http://www.evertonarentwe.com/Mirallas.gif], although I'm preaching to the choir, you can clearly see (i) Suarez move his left foot to an open position to make contact, and for no other reason and (ii) Suarez going to ground as he stamps without any contact to imply a collision and create a diversion. I'm amazed the press seemed to ignore this incident.
Colin Potter
20 Posted 01/11/2012 at 14:54:20
Dennis, I would love to see the scummy bastard play against the likes of a Paddy Crerend or Norman "bite yer legs" Hunter. he would be shitting himself within 5 minutes. And there's many more who would have had the buck tooth shit house.
He definately focusing his eyes on Distins and Mirallas's legs. Ive watched it slow motion (posh telly) and you can by his body language he was determined to have them. Let's hope he's in no fit state to ever play against us again.
Mike Powell
21 Posted 01/11/2012 at 15:58:36
All I get off the reds is Neville is a disgrace for diving and the ref was on our side for disallowing that goal. Nothing about the bucked-teeth one should've been sent off twice or Stevie 'not Me lar' diving for the free kick for their second goal.

They are still crying now in their pints of bitter... they cannot take it that we are a better side than them. Get used to it, you bitter bitter reds.
Denis Byrne
22 Posted 01/11/2012 at 16:24:09
You're so right Colin, can you just imagine it! We were at the game and the talking point and biggest reaction in our bit was not only Suarezs vileness but the total incompetency of the referee, which has had some, but not sufficient attention. Two Scottish lads next to me were not impressed - 'we thought the SPL ref's were bad, but this is shocking ...'.
Jamie Tulacz
23 Posted 01/11/2012 at 18:56:33
Mirallas tackle worse than I thought on first look.

Absolutely no attempt to play the ball, tried to swipe the leg and end up stamping on the foot/ankle and attempting a dive for good measure!

Andy Crooks
24 Posted 01/11/2012 at 19:30:09
How would we feel if Suarez played for Everton? Would we give him the big Dunc get out of jail card? I suspect we wouldn't. The response to Phil Neville's dive suggests that Evertonians,at least on this site, know what is palatable and what isn't.

We have all been attempting to define Suarez and describe him properly. It is really difficult because in fifty of watching football he is the worst specimen I have ever witnessed. A coward, a cheat and a fundamentally disgusting man. I could never support a club if he wore the shirt. The admirable Shankly would be ashamed. Sadly, there is no one there who knows the meaning of the word..

For Shankly, Lawler, Paisley, Fagan etc, swop Suarez, Gerrard, Carragher etc. It's sad really.

Ray McBurney
25 Posted 01/11/2012 at 19:43:01
David Mason (658) I'm sending this link to friends. Is it not possible to get Suarez suspended retrospectivley as the ref didn't see it? He goes out of his way to inflict damage.
Alan Ross
26 Posted 01/11/2012 at 20:46:58
A completely cynical and wreckless attempt at injury. Was this the gofer's own persona or under instruction judging by the number of tackles Distin was getting around that time from different members of the shite.
Joe Bibb
27 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:01:07
Distin is lucky that he wasn't bitten, Suarez has more teeth than a Chain Saw and he has a record of biting other players in Holland.
Peter Cummings
28 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:10:04
It's a sad fact of life that hypocrisy is the name of the game in football today when scum like Sewerez are 'idolised' by both the clubs and the fans they play for and can see no wrong in the way they conduct themselves. There is NO excuse for deliberately injuring another player even in retaliation, which in this little piece of garbage's case was non-existent just pure and obvious intent. His comeuppance is long overdue; let's hope it's soon.
Dave Roberts
29 Posted 02/11/2012 at 10:56:31
In a way I can live with Gerrard because he's just a deluded, bigoted and declining idiot. Accordingly I can get by just laughing at him. But Suarez is a totally different kettle of fish. He is a thoroughly nasty and contemptible piece of work and it wouldn't surprise me one iota if a psychiatric assessment revealed a psychopathic personality lurking in there somewhere.

I've seen the video of him biting that player's ear when he was playing in Holland (in fact I think it's on YouTube). Anybody who could do that, especially in the 'matter of fact' way that he did it, has no conception whatsoever of acceptable behavioural boundaries.

I used to berate players like Tommy Smith, Johnny Giles and Billy Bremner (amongst others) for cynicism and a tendency to resort to 'violence' too easily (in fairness a bit less so for Smith) but those fellas were amateurs compared to Suarez. He's like a weasel and I once heard somebody say in a wildlife documentary that if weasels were the size of lions they would be the most dangerous animals on the planet.

Well we have one the size of a RS footballer and Distin and Mirallas now know how dangerous weasels that size can be.

There is definitely something wrong with a football club that puts up with that from a player and condones it by protecting the bastard. Perhaps it's the club's ego deflating too slowly for the pace of the demise of their self-awarded status that leads to their belief that they can do no wrong and it was perhaps this that enabled them to run out with t-shirts supporting a player capable of overt racism.

Sometimes my hatred of LFC embarrasses me. I'm 65 years old and I feel so fucking juvenile in this one respect. I hated them when I was 15 and 50 years later I have not mellowed at all and I hate them even more and I hate them even more because from the owners to the fucking tea lady they all think Suarez is a legend!

Fellaini came to us with a bit of a reputation. The reputation was overstated but it did have a bit of substance. The club have worked on that and generally now he keeps his elbows to himself and he no longer gets pulled up every time he makes a challenge. And he is a better player for it. Well done Moyesie et al.

Wouldn't you think somebody at LFC would take Suarez aside in the same way and just say to him, "Look lad, you're a good player. Let your football do the talking or there will come a point when you're more trouble than you're worth". No they won't because they are all so deluded they think the vile little bastard is 'misunderstood'.

I don't quite agree with Moyes that fans will desert football because of the likes of Suarez. Maybe the game is too big for that and maybe there are too many who support players like Suarez as long as they are at their club. But if I was a young dad now thinking of starting my kids off on the short road to Evertonianship, I wouldn't be too happy taking them to see shits like Suarez every week.

Steve Cotton
30 Posted 02/11/2012 at 11:43:38
References to big Dunc are way off the mark, Dunc was hard and had a violent streak in him if he thought he was being wronged, but he took his opponents face on and never cheated or feigned injury. Perhaps Dunc would have loved to play in the Smith, Hunter, Giles era when he could have dished it out back.

However, Suarez is a new breed of snivelling cheating, diving trying to get opponents sent off, whispering racist comments into an opponent's ear, trying to badly injure opponents after the ball has gone knowing he could end their careers, so a horrible piece of work he is... Perhaps there is a character in films or TV somewhere who bears the same traits and we can all highlight the comparison....
Brent Stephens
31 Posted 02/11/2012 at 12:08:30
Dave, and others, I know that what we feel about Suarez just seems to surpass anything that we've ever felt about any other player. It goes beyond the fact that he plays for "the side from the other side". I'm never an angry person and never a malicious one but the tooth fairy does get me so angry and feeling I just wish I could gob him and wish somebody really would damage him.

But I wonder if there's a way to get these views expressed to their owners in USA. Because having read some of their fan forums I can see that there are some on the other side who don't like him as a person and find him embarrassing. If their owners felt he was destroying the brand, they might do something about it. Or am I being naive? And is he best left alone in the hope that he'll actually destroy himself big time at some point? And take them down with him?

I just feel I want to take my anger out on something in some way!

Dave Charles
32 Posted 02/11/2012 at 12:59:42
Dave 754. You would think someone would take him to one side but Dalglish was on talksport and more or less says he doesn't dive, but jumps out of the way of the defenders tackle or he will get his legs broken. Now with shite like that being spoken, it's clear that they see it their way and only their way .................. Victimised.
Tony McNulty
33 Posted 02/11/2012 at 14:12:18
Brent - re. your opening sentence. I wonder if it's just because he appears and seems to act slyly. Being sly is something people just don't like. I am not Irish (although sone of my ancestors were) but there is a lovely Irish onomatopoeiaic word which I think would describe him.

The word is (I don't know the correct spelling): "sleeveen." Perhaps any Irish-speaking Evertonians would confirm whether this word does mean oily, sly, git, and whether they think it suitable for Rat gob.

Brent Stephens
34 Posted 02/11/2012 at 14:31:13
Tom. I think the word "sleevee" is wonderful - it's very onom... (you can spell the rest!). OUP defines it as "an untrustworthy or cunning person" - that doesn't quite sound strong enough for him, but the word itself sounds oily, sly, which he is.

"Donkey mouth" as somebody on TW called him! I think that's ace. Perhaps TWebbers could chip in to buy a donkey on Blackpool beach (if they still have them) - we could call it Suarez and feed it carrots - I can just see the teeth chomping now! Imagine the shit it would leave behind - as now.

Tony Doran
35 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:26:55
When I played many moons ago the two worst things a player could do was spit in someone's face and try to snap the achilies of another player. Remember Kean tried and ended up worse off. Cowardly act what should be allowed to be settled in the carpark. The shite do have a tendency to attract the most vulgar of players.
Dave Charles
36 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:37:53
Yes Tony 773. Phil Neal doing Kevin Sheedy in the 1984 Milk Cup Final. Right down the achilles and ending Sheedy's season.
Peter Leslie
37 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:57:11
A bit bored at the end of the week, so thought I'd try and encapsulate my feelings towards that shitty Uruguayan rodent across the park...
[This is for my own entertainment and that of my fellow blue wordsmiths....]

Suarez = Sickening, Unethical, Abhorrent, Repulsive, Execrable Zenophobe

Maybe I'll do it in Scouse later too

Peter Leslie
38 Posted 02/11/2012 at 15:59:28
And I was also racking my brain to remember what that big swamp-rat was called....

Here it is from Wikipedia – actually funny..

The capybara has a heavy, barrel-shaped body and short head [...]. Its sweat glands can be found in its haired skin surface, an unusual trait among rodents.

Adult capybaras stand 50 to 64 cm [...] The top recorded weight is 73.5 kg (162 lb) for a wild male from Uruguay.

Capybaras have slightly webbed feet and vestigial tails. Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads. They are all completely insufferable snide racist gobshites.

(OK, the last bit was mine)

COYFB !!!
Gerry Quinn
39 Posted 02/11/2012 at 16:02:55
Tommy "Leg-breaker" Smith
Jimmy (Head-fuckin) Case - ending Geoff Nulty's career
Souness - sneaky, dirty (nee filthy) bastard
Emelyn "squeaky-clean" Hughes, gobshite extra-ordinaire

THAT club seems to continue to attract players that all of football takes an instant dislike to.

Ged Simpson
40 Posted 02/11/2012 at 16:29:00
"School of science"

"School of...."

Complete

Andy Meighan
41 Posted 02/11/2012 at 18:51:41
Dave (#754) – great post!

I'm in my 50s and I thought as I'd get older my hatred for them would maybe mellow a bit. How wrong was I? I detest the bastards more than ever... it's a bit sad. But, while they've got players of the ilk of Gerrard Carragher and the beaver Cilla playing for them, I don't think it'll wane.

The thing is I've got a 9-year-old son and he's going exactly the same way as me with the twisted faces on him when anything about them comes on telly and the snide comments and all.
I should be quite disgusted but actually inwardly I'm saying that's my boy – shocking isn't it? But that's the way we are...

I was talking to a pub red in work the other day about that thing up front for them and he was waxing lyrical how great he was etc, to which I calmly replied he's a rat. He replied, "Yeah, but he's our rat." You couldn't make it up you really couldn't
Joe Green
42 Posted 02/11/2012 at 23:00:12
Alan (719)

The thought that the RS players were under instructions to "harass" our back line also went through my mind - remember Sterling was booked (and could have seen red) for a deliberate kick at Baines in the first half.

I'm sure that BR didn't say "injure" the Everton players and that Suarez took it too far, but I suspect that first on the list of tasks and targets given to BR by his American boss is "finish above the other team in the city".

Brian Waring
43 Posted 03/11/2012 at 09:29:36
Dave (#754) Agree with you on Fellaini, the the club seem to have curbed his temperament a tad. The problem is though, he still seems to see the red mist. You only have to look at him in the derby where him and Allen are tussling for the ball, Fellaini gets the free - kick, but as Allen goes down, Fellaini kicks him, if the ref spots that, Fellaini's off.
Nelly Verdonghan
44 Posted 03/11/2012 at 10:39:40
Andy #709....I just winder what the deluded hypocritical RS bastards would say if the vile creature that is Suarez played for Man Utd...??

I think we all know the answer... say no more.


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