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Liverpool striker Luis Suárez's snub to Patrice Evra was predictable according to Ajax coach Frank de BoerThere is a reason why traditionally games started and ended with a handshake between two 'warring' factions who are out for each other's jugular during the games but will be having drinks again afterwards. This is known gentlemanly conduct. What happens on the pitch is left on the pitch!
Times changed. People came out of conquest of war mode and natives gained independence. Man's unquenchable inner desire to kill and dominate is steered towards games which promise equal footing of action and gore. Suddenly, games especially football (soccer) became too big for its own good.
Along came creatures likes publicity and public relations managers who promise the sky and the moon to take the game to dizzying heights who scaled out of thin air. And 'poof' came the vultures in the form telecommunications whiz to bring the players to everybody's living room. And the hyenas of briefcase lawyers who were anything but brief in their circumlocutory lecture about ensuring justice and fair play to players, clubs, everything and everyone involved in this entity, which had started as a pastime for the rich and famous, who had the luxury to flaunt the affluence to the scavengers who were out looking for crumbs in the royal courtyard!
Any news is good news for the development of the game. So when a racial outburst occurred during a multi-million bookie deciding match of the two most famous football teams of the world, it got people interested. With the average modern man's attention span on the decline, misadventures like this was played again and again to arouse interest in the game going on and on.
When a veteran suggested that they should just kiss and make up (not really, end it with a hand shake), his idea was shot down with the fastest ammunition. The powers that be decided that sports must be a beacon of hope to eradicate the fire of racism at its flint. The perpetrator was punished and when he returned to play the same opponent, he was expected to be dandy with him obliging with a handshake.
Now, for all the publicity yearning game had hoped for, the issue remains unsettled and people are still talking about it. Good for the game, any news is good news!!!

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