Football: Reds ponder appeal after Suarez report

The 24-year-old was hit with an eight-game ban and fined $40,000 last month for racially abusing MU defender Evra.

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool were considering whether to appeal the ban imposed on Luis Suarez after the panel that found him guilty of racial abuse released a report accusing him of giving ‘unreliable’ evidence. The 24-year-old was hit with an eight-game ban and fined $40,000 last month for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. Liverpool denounced the disciplinary panel’s judgment in the strongest possible terms, and insisted that Suarez was not a racist. But so severe is the panel’s criticism of Suarez in the detailed report that Liverpool may accept a ban on the in-form striker. “Suarez, the club and our legal advisors will take the necessary amount of time to read, digest and consider the contents of the judgment and will make no further comment at present,” read a  club statement.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd,  2012.