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Originally Posted by The Big Chill
I wasn't arguing against that, I was answering a question about what the FA based their decision on. As I said before, I think Suarez, Liverpool and the FA have all handled this situation poorly when it could have been handled much more effectively by all parties involved. Even Evra's reputation has taken a hit after this.
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The FA based their decision on Evra's version of events which they found to be believable due to be being consistant throughout with no inconsistancies from other witnesses (Giggs, Ref).
As opposed to ......
the Liverpool gongshow. First you have Kuyt making a grade A clown out of himself and establishing himself as a class A liar (or a complete moronic dumbass) in his attempt to cover up for Suarez or stir up against Evra. Fortunately, he hadn't the brain cells to realise that being "absolutely certain" that he heard a conversation between two people might be contradicted by ummm, you know .... the two people that were having the conversation.
Then you have Suarez who attempted to make a mockery of the whole process by attempting one of the dumbest lies (the pinching) in sporting history. Special mention has to go to the Liverpool Legal team that allowed this amazing bit of fabrication to be included in his witness statement and not considering that they might be cross-examined on it. L....O....L at the pathetic effort to explain wdf he was on about when questioned on it. ummmm ..... poor drafting of the statement!
Quite simply the FA had no option but to believe Evra (again, consistant, not contradicted, believable) when the other option was to consider that LFC (including their legal team) were being honest and consistant in their approach to the hearing. (see Kuyt and Suarez's lies, Daglish's contradiction of Suarez). That they took this sort of gameplan (lie their way out of it) into a hearing of this magnitude, I'm guessing didn't sit well with the FA.
Why aren't they appealing? Well .... what grounds have they got to appeal on? Daglish has already contradicted Suarez, and their other two witnesses (Kuyt and Suarez) are already proven liars.
Don't forget Man U and Evra have so far been quiet on this whole affair but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the first topics brought up behind closed door meetings of the two clubs is a request for a full public apology from Liverpool to Evra coupled with a public retraction of the post verdict statement on their website or else they'll be legal proceedings for libel.
To summarize. Evra made the claim. Suarez defended against it. The defence was riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions and blatant lies. In other words the defence = zero.
Or .... it was a conspiracy!
The FA investigated this as fully and thoroughly as possible, even bringing in the services of a QC for the hearing. Not much more they could have done.