Thursday, June 26, 2014

Luis Suarez's bite gets the talkSPORT treatment

Talk sport actually has some pretty funny videos where they dub over foreign language interviews with subtitles in English, particularly the one they did with Robin van Persie after he signed for Manchester United, but I have to admit I was a little disappointed with this one. I guess there's not much more you can really do when you're rushed to put out a topical video as quickly as possible after the incident itself, but I can't help but think if they had waited a little longer they could have found a better video to really sync up his emotions and his ridiculously huge-toothed smile.

And let me restate- obviously what Suarez did was bad and deserving of a red card, but don't tell me you'd rather have your leg shattered into pieces or ACL crushed by an intentional tackle than get bitten in the shoulder. There are intentional fouls every weekend during the season that do much worse damage than a hickey on the shoulder. Much more violent shit than this happens all the time, just because it was a bite and it seems a bit more feral than the typical play doesn't mean Bob Ley has to act like somebody died, or that Alexi Lalas has to drone on about how the sport of soccer should commit seppuku to retain its honor.

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