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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
... Seriously? No matter how much you dislike someone, it's a professional game, and it's in the name of sportsmanship. You Always shake their hand. Sportsmanship isn't about pretending to like someone, it's about showing the respect that is due to an opponent, it's about remembering that it is a game, and that it's all meant to be in good sport.
What Suarez did wasn't about not shaking Evra's hand because he didn't like him, it was about refusing to be mature and put his personal dislike of Evra below sportsmanship and the spirit of the game. He's an international superstar, he has a responsibility to be mature and to uphold that spirit. In my opinion, anyone so immature and petty as that should be banned from the FA.
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True. The whole issue was that despite being banned he refused to let the issue go - essentially showing that he puts his grudges above the game.
And Evra was not in the same boat at all, he held his hand out first, Suarez ignored him, Evra offered it again yet Suarez continued.