Why should anyone have to shake anyones hands?
If someone threatened to punch you would you shake thier hand?
If someone accuses you of something you feel you have not done would you shake their hand?
Suarez obviously changed his mind, he said to the club that he would before hand, but when it came to it he obviously decided he wouldn't be two faced and do something he didn't want to do. Its his choice, he feels wronged and im my opinion (having read the whole of the 160 odd pages of FA "evidence"), had the whole thing just been handed to the Police by the FA in the first place, he would have been found not guilty - The Police and CPS work based on "beyond reasonable doubt" as opposed to "a balance of probability" to convict people, and lets face it "a balance of probability" just means i believe his story slightly more then yours, and has nothing to do with evidence.
There was no video evidence of his "alleged" multiple racial remarks, (strange considering it was such a big game live in many countries on many channels, using many cameras) and yet John Terry is caught by two different camera's blatenty using racial terminology. Lets not forget that seconds before they were both involved in a takle, and the camera's seemed to be following them and their argument. Had this gone to the police it would have been Suarez's word against Evra's, and given that Evra started the conversation in spanish, and that Suarez responded in spanish, the Police would have had to use the translation in Uraguayan spanish, which has no direct translation and so therefore no crime was commited. In fact its pretty well know that in those countries racism is not even thought about because there was never really a slave trade there, racism is at its most rampent in the US, UK and europe who were the most active in slavery.
A very good, seemingly unbiased website went through all the evidence and published a very good, readable breakdown explaining why they think the FA were wrong, I highly recomend people have a read and see if it changes opinions, it certainly helped re-enforce mine, even though it explains arguments against Suarez as well: -
The link you've provided doesn't work. Shame as I'd like to read it.
there is little doubt as to the fact most of evra's side of the events are over exaggerated and further from the actual truth than Suarez's side of the events
this is not the first time either, once against Liverpool and again against Chelsea, given the size of the ban and the length of the ban, it's little surprise that suarez would want to shake the hands of a man who's lies cost him his reputation 40k and the opportunity to play football for 8 games
Terry Case
Anton Ferdinand did not complain to the match officials or the FA but subsequently a complaint was made by (person unknown??) to the Police on the strength of TV footage. If Terry is found guilty in Court then I would think it highly likely that the FA would then take further action as he has brought the game into disrepute.
Evra did not make any complaints against Chelsea but he did make a complaint against Suarez of Liverpool and that complaint was investigated by the FA because the complaint was made to them. To date, no one has made a complaint to the Police and so no criminal action has been investigated.
Two completely different scenario's.
In respect of Suarez and Evra the comment was made that Evra is a liar. That same person suggested in another thread that it is "dangerous" to assume. If you look back at the disciplinary records of Evra and Suarez back through their careers I would say that it would be a safer bet to assume that Suarez will again bring disgrace onto Liverpool Football Club long before Evra will bring disgrace onto Manchester United. The look on Alan Hansens face that night on MOTD said it all for me - Suarez is not in the mold of Liverpool and his behaviour clearly sickened Hansen who indeed is, a true legend of the Club.
Let us not forget the the FA is a law unto itself, it can make or break laws that other organisations have to abide by.
It is quite right that a player or dugout team should not abuse a ref during a match, Sir Alex should not stand on the touchline shouting abuse at ref or be allowed onto the pitch to question his decision. However, in an interview a few days later and discussing a game why is he not allowed to make a cool and calculated opinion by saying something like "the ref made some bad decisions and cost us/won us the match", at all other jobs even the queen and the government can be accused of that as a personal opinion by another person.
It is only in recent years that the CPS have considered charging sportsmen and women with assault, previously the governing organisations ruling was accepted as fair punishment, we see that only today with the after match fight at the the boxing.
you make very bold statements too hot, and i hope that those bold statements at some point do not bite you up your arsey. peeple on here it seems have long memories and i will be the first one to remind you of your comment if evra brings his club or himself into dissrepute.
