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Suarez takes bite out of online bookmaker

25 June 2014 Last updated at 18:10 BST

A Norwegian man has won 17,000 kroner (£2,000, $2,850) after betting that striker Luis Suarez would bite someone during the World Cup.

Online bookmaker Betsafe had been offering odds of 175/1 that the Uruguayan would attack an opponent in Brazil.

Suarez denies claims that he bit Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during Tuesday's match, but the sport's governing body, Fifa, has opened an investigation into the claim.

Richard Helmersen, 24, who originally put down 100 kroner (£10, $16), told Norway's NRK he wanted to "say thank you to Luis Suarez".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28020605

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It will be interesting to see if FIFA does the right thing and suspend him. He's already been suspended for 7 matches the first time and then 10 the second time. This could get him the max 2 year ban.

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and those are just the biting bans he's picked up

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FIFA just announced that Suarez is being banned from 9 international matches and 4 months of anything soccer/football related

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which means he miss's only 9 league games he was banned for 10 at the start of last season for the same offence

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Jürgen Klinsmann is singing the US anthem

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FIFA just announced that Suarez is being banned from 9 international matches and 4 months of anything soccer/football related

they should just make him wear a hannibal lechter mask and be done with it.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

3 of the 4 CONCACAF teams made it to the round of 16

[DemonGeminiX]

5 out of the 6 CONMEBOL teams made it. The only team that didn't was Ecuador. The Western hemisphere teams are fighting really hard.

[DemonGeminiX]

Only 6 of the 14 teams from the UEFA made it through.

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It's the weather

[Acid Trip]

It will be interesting to see if FIFA does the right thing and suspend him. He's already been suspended for 7 matches the first time and then 10 the second time. This could get him the max 2 year ban.

is FIFA thinking? I would banned him for life on the 2nd offense.

It's one thing to punch someone (or head in the chest like Zinadine did) but biting is fucking disgusting.

[Hugh_Janus]

man.... if he did that to me on the pitch, I'd have dropped the fucker

[DemonGeminiX]

Belgium and Algeria advance.

It will be Germany vs Algeria and Belgium vs the USA in the round of 16.

[Goofy]

Anyone else getting bored yet? I havent watched a game yet this week......