Luis Suárez’s Giorgio Chiellini clash adds to story of violence and deceit

 

"Earlier this year, an American sportswriter by the name of Wright Thompson travelled to Uruguay to speak to some of the people who knew Luis Suárez to try to get a better picture of his background. Thompson had heard of one story going back to Suárez’s childhood, of him being sent off in a youth match and head-butting the referee and how one witness had described the victim’s nose bleeding “like a cow”. He wanted to know if it was true. He wanted to find the referee.

Thompson went to Montevideo and spent weeks on the case. Everywhere he went, there was a common theme."
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