Liverpool defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Glen-Johnson-c15050, feels that Luis Suarez has been victimized by the match officials due to his controversial presence in England.
The Uruguayan International has made it into the headlines every now and then for all the wrong reasons, since joining the Merseyside club in January, 2011.
He was slapped with an eight-match suspension by the FA for his racial assault against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrice-Evra-c29231. Later, he refused to shake hands with the Frenchman during a pre-match handshake ceremony.
Consequently, he remained England’s public enemy number one during the Olympic Games, where he was constantly booed and jeered by the crowds.
Furthermore, the striker has also garnered a reputation of being a diver, and is often criticize for winning illegitimate penalty kicks.
His club teammate, Johnson, however, feels that the 25-year old has been at the receiving end of unfair and hard treatment from the match officials.
The English footballer insisted that the referees should not make decisions based on a player’s history, and the only reason why referee, Mark Halsey, ruled a couple of penalty decisions against his team on Sunday was because of his evident bias against
Suarez.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 lost 2-1 to old time rivals, Manchester United at Anfield, after the referee awarded a soft penalty kick to the latter in the closing stages.
During the course of the game, the Reds themselves put up a couple of shouts for a spot-kick, but to no avail.
“Everybody has to do their http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 and they have to forget who they are looking at. They just have to make the decisions. They can’t let anything from the past affect their decisions. They have to call the shots at the time, regardless of who it is,” Johnson
told the reporters in an interview.
“I almost guarantee that if you flipped the situation, if Luis was in the position of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345, he wouldn’t get a penalty. We all know that.”
Given his apparent troubles with the crowds and the media in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749, it was widely believed that Suarez would seek to ply his trade somewhere else during the summer.
Consequently, he was rumoured to be contemplating an Anfield exit. However, the striker quashed all such speculations by penning a long term deal with the Reds at the start of the season.
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