Whatever punishment had been handed down to Luis Suárez would have been criticized.
That the Liverpool striker was banned for 10 games for sinking his teeth into the arm of Chelsea's Branoslav Ivanovic has outraged some (mainly on the red half of Merseyside) because of its severity. Others think it's what a brilliant player but a nasty bit of work deserved.
While the Football Association's antiquated, indefensible regulations allow potential leg-breaking tackles to go unpunished because a match official has seen the incident despite taking no action, the governing body is on the thinnest of disciplinary ice.