Now I'm sorry Kenny Dalgleish but you are on your own on this one. I would go as far as to say that Dalgleish's prickly attitude towards the media hasn't helped the situation.
Luis Suarez is undoubtedly an extremely talented and intelligent footballer. The problem with him is that he appeals every marginal decision as if he had been subjected to an assault. Our first real taste of Suarez wasn't nice. I won't ever forget the disgraceful scenes in the tunnel as Gyan missed the penalty conceded by Suarez in the Ghana v Uruguay match in the world cup. It was a picture that disagreed with everything I love about sport.
Then Liverpool signed him and I thought maybe I had misjudged him. He certainly can play but with him he brought his cheating side. He was the main reason Jack Rodwell got sent off for a perfectly decent tackle in the Merseyside derby. There was no surprise to see Suarez act like he had been shot. Then their is the ugly incident where he is accused of racially assaulting Patrice Evra. Just because Suarez was "clever" enough to do so in a foreign language does not make things acceptable.
Because of the way in which he protests so furiously about anything, officials have seen the matches afterwards and have seen his exaggerations for themselves. So now their first thought is "is Suarez trying to con us again". Away from home the crowd will make this harder for the poor referees to determine. All that has happened is Suarez has become a victim of his own reputation.
Against Fulham he showed his true colours when in defeat he reacted by gesturing to the crowd. Now if that was Joey Barton or Wayne Rooney we would be critical but I heard one expert say he hoped Suarez got away with no punishment. I'm sorry but how else is he supposed to learn. You can't go around flexing the rules and technical cheating and not receive any repercussions or expect opposing fans to like it. Plenty of players get abuse from fans but that doesn't give them the right to aim hand gestures at them.
If anything it is referees that need protection from Suarez's antics rather than him needing protection from other players. When you watch a match the commentary struggle to bit their tongues afraid of calling him a cheat. That is how bad he has got though. If Dalgleish can't see that then either the blood shot eye is causing his sight to fail or he has just become so deluded that he is choosing to live in ignorance. Tell your star player to play how he can play but stop all the simulation and cheating. Simples.
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