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Saturday 31 December 2011

FA: Suarez Racism Evidence Unreliable

Liverpool football player Luis Suarez gave "unreliable" and "inconsistent" evidence to the commission investigating claims that he racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra, it has emerged.
The Football Association (FA) released the independent regulatory commission's full written reasons this evening on its website.
The 115-page document goes into detail of the case and the conversation the two players had during the match at Anfield on October 15.
The evidence states that Suarez called Evra a "negro" seven times in the incident.
The report by an independent commission says when Evra asked Suarez during the October match why he had been kicked, the striker replied in Spanish: "Porque tu eres negro," which translates as "because you are black."
Evra said he would punch Suarez if he repeated the comment to which Suarez said: "No hablo con los negros" - "I do not speak to blacks."
The FA says Suarez has pledged "he will not use the word 'negro' on a football pitch in England in the future."
On December 20, following a lengthy investigation by an Independent Regulatory Commission, the FA announced that Suarez would be banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 for racially abusing Evra.
The ban was suspended pending an appeal by the Merseyside club.

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