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However, I didn't expect to see what I did at the weekend, as Suarez appeared to take a chunk out of Branislav Ivanovic's arm.I'm interested though, in the fact that on this occasion the FA deemed that none of the officials in the Liverpool v Chelsea game had seen the incident. In recent weeks Calum McManaman and Sergio Aguero have made appalling challenges but faced no sanctions for doing so, as the indication was that since at least one of the four officials in charge saw each incident, nothing could be done about it.Speaking of the Champions League, amidst the incredible performances of the two German sides over their Spanish counterparts this week, there were a couple of seriously ropey calls. Not least the decision by a collective of officials to allow Bayern Munich's third goal to stand, despite a clear body check by Thomas Muller on Jordi Alba that allowed Arjen Robben safe passage to wander through and score.I don't think I need to analyse the incident any more than has been done on an uber-forensic level over the past few days. But obviously the ten-game ban that was handed down to the Uruguayan has divided opinion, and it calls into question several things about the FA's current self-policing judicial system.I would have been fascinated had there been a similar stance on this occasion. Suarez - already a bit of a pantomime villain - bites a player, but doesn't get censured at all. That would have made for some even more interesting headlines than the ones we have seen this week.I think the 10-game sentence is just fine. I am very pro harsh punishments for certain crimes so as to act as deterrents. And I don't believe that by banning Suarez for ten games that the FA is saying that biting is necessarily worse than racism, it is more a case of this being a follow-up offence. Had the offences been the other way around and the biting came first, then the harsher punishment would be meted out for the alleged racist indiscretion. It's just a question of the punishment being incrementally increased as the player has transgressed again.