Not you again??!

Understandable perhaps that Liverpool F C should feel that the ten-match ban on Luis Suarez for biting an opponent was too severe, but the manager's statement that "the punishment has been against the man rather than the incident" sort of misses the point doesn't it?  When deciding a sentence the past history of the wrongdoer is always a factor - a serial offender is always going to be treated differently to a first offender.  And Suarez has "previous" - quite a lot actually - so his sentence doesn't just reflect what he did so much as the fact that he keeps doing stuff like it, and it is right that it should.