Blood Was Drawn

           

Recently in Aussie rules football, a player bit another player's testicles and perforated his scrotum. We used to call that foreplay on Teesside in the 1970s. In all male sports there are occasions when acts of violence happen. We don't want to encourage them but we should understand them when they happen. It's probably part of our DNA, a hangover from our hunter-gatherer days. We may be drinking lattes, using moisturizer and pretending to like cats in order to impress women but underneath we're all still animals.Everyone should be thanking Suarez. He's the gift that keeps on giving whether you want to love or hate him. He's a super-skilful angry, gerbil-like creature that hunts a ball down like a wild animal hunts its quarry. He's utterly brilliant and great entertainment up to and including the biting habit. We should be grateful.Where on the scale of football sins does it lie? Worse than diving? Worse than a bad tackle? Worse than kneeing someone in the back? Worse than fighting? Worse than putting your thumb up someone's bum? All of those could cause a major injury (except the bum thumb thing, unless you've got a very big thumb with a sharp nail). It's not like he actually removed any flesh so was it actually a real bite or some sort of faux vegan-inspired bite which did not taste flesh? A soya bite, if you will.When I saw Mr Suarez lunching on Branislav Ivanovic's arm, like most observers of sense I thought, blimey, you want to go for the Serbian's buttocks, mate. The rump steak on Ivanovic would surely be a large and meaty eat. Plus we could have run a headline which says Suarez Eats Chelsea Bun. And that would have been splendid and appropriately daft.They were so sombre, so very horrified that they showed it time and again, slowing it down and replaying it as though it was the Kennedy assassination in Oliver Stone's movie JFK. 'back and to the left, back and to the left.Can we say this once and very loudly: this whole damn thing doesn't really matter! It really doesn't! De-wad your panties now.