Luis Suarez - the definitive biography by the Weekly Sport's own Frank Worrall

He's the best striker in world football today – but also the most controversial. Banned three times for biting opponents including the shameful episode with Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Luis Suarez has also been embroiled in a race row with Manchester United’s Patrice Evra and been public enemy number one at the 2010 World Cup after handballing on the line in Uruguay’s quarter-final against Ghana. Yet on the field he has brought goals galore and glory to every team he has played for. He transformed Liverpool into a title-chasing team in 2013-14. Almost miraculously, he overcame an ankle injury operation to kill off England with two wonderful goals in the 2014 World Cup.

It was the prospect of such remarkable feats that encouraged Spanish giants Barcelona to offer a mind-boggling £75 million for his services in the summer of 2014 despite his four-month ban for biting Chiellini. Yet what exactly makes this brilliant, but flawed, man tick? What demons lie behind his cannibal acts, his cheating and his frequent bust-ups with fellow pros, and the clubs and managers who fall over themselves to employ him? Just why is Suarez incapable of steering clear of controversy? In this first-ever biography of the Uruguayan superstar, renowned footballing biographer Frank Worrall reveals the good, the bad and the downright ugly traits that define Suarez the footballer and Suarez the man.