all this stuff about Suarez "cheating" - whatever. it's not his fault, or any other player's, that the rules are so stupid. you can't expect players under tremendous amounts of pressure to win not to take advantage of every possible opportunity to do so. I feel as bad for Ghana as the next dude, but that's absurd. in general I think dudes are mistaking cheating for taking advantage of stupid rules and bad officiating. diving is probably the single most unattractive thing about soccer (esp. to Americans), but as long as it works, and the refereeing is so utterly inconsistent, and there's no consequences for it, players will continue to dive. as long as there's no reliable video replay - which is succcessfully used by every single other major sport in the world - there will be complaints about offsides/lack thereof, wrongly disallowed goals, handballs, etc anyway, the upshot is that in the unlikely event that Uruguay goes on to win it all, it will not have been through cheating, b/c they didn't break any rules. Suarez is already, I'm sure, a national hero. also, anyone who says they wouldn't, esp. in the heat of the moment, have done exactly the same thing is almost certainly lying.
