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.

WEEKLY SPORT publishers pledge 100% sport editorial policy, while porno Sunday Sport faces 'the bag'

Press campaigners who publish genuine sporting news via the WEEKLY SPORT project, have seen a marketplace victory as UK retailers seek to 'bin or bag' sleazy soft porn titles called, misleadingly, Sunday SPORT and Midweek SPORT.

 

The WEEKLY SPORT is owned and published by Independent News Limited, who actively sought to establish digital and print titles that truly did as they said on the tin - provide 24/7 coverage of the week's sport.

This proved to be a great success, particularly prior to the run-up, and during, the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The same team had also been involved with THE SON newspaper, a Christian themed red top, and the highly successful men's lifestyle title, SORTED magazine, which sells in volume via WHSmith,

Last week the Co-operative supermarket refused to stock two newspapers and four lads’ magazines.Their decision came after these titles refused the Co-op’s request that they should be sold in opaque 'modesty bags' to safeguard their main customer base.

The WEEKLY SPORT, SORTED and THE SON newspaper teams say they "could see this coming a mile off" and "welcome the decision as a positive step to prevent offence to women and family shoppers, and to protect children."  Ethical and family based publishing has always been key to their editorial and marketing policy.

Co-operative Group chief executive of retail Steve Murrells agrees with these policies, and says: "As a community-based retailer, we have listened to and acted upon the concerns of our customers and members, many of whom said they objected to their children being able to see overt sexual images in our stores."

The deceptively named Midweek and Sunday Sport newspapers, who actually publish blatant soft porn and sex industry advertising, with very little actual sporting news content, initially agreed to adopt sealed 'modesty bags'. However, their publisher has now told the Co-op that they will no longer comply with the request and will continue to mislead the public. As a result wholesale orders of the offending titles have been binned by the supermarket giant.

The Co-op chief executive reasserted his point of view: “We believe individual, sealed modesty bags are the most effective way of addressing these concerns, so we will no longer be stocking the titles that have failed to meet our request. This action will make our stores more attractive to families with young children, by creating a more family-friendly shopping environment.”

Meanwhile, since their title does not require 'modesty bagging', the campaigning team behind the WEEKLY SPORT project have received some surprise additional venture capitalist support to take their ethical, news sport brand to a much wider marketplace. Investor, Jason Courage, who was so impressed by the positive coverage of the Paralympics, and is himself a longterm wheelchair user, believes the appetite for sporting news coverage continues to be a growing and bankable market.

Courage makes the point: "Observing how SORTED magazine has actually gained readers by adhering to a strong moral editorial approach, convinces me that members of the same team can create a winning formula with a national tabloid newspaper such as the WEEKLY SPORT."

Unlike its rivals, copies of SORTED lads' magazine will remain available at all good stores without the need for censorship covers. Likewise, the WEEKLY SPORT will remain committed to a one hundred percent genuine sport editorial policy.

Ultimately, though, both the Co-op's Steve Murrells and 'angel' investor Jason Courage agree upon one thing: "The consumer has the final say - you pays your money and you takes your choice..."

Here are the three ethical media trendsetters you may choose to follow...

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Man United gaffer David Moyes is member of God squad

MOYES' FAITH IN CHRISTIANITY

DAVID Moyes is revealed as a quietly-spoken Christian with an interest in the pastoral care of his players. 

However, in an autobiography Red Card Roy author, Roy McDonough, who played with Moyes in a struggling Cambridge United side in 1984-85 claims that didn't go down to well with him.

Moyes was one of a trio of active Christians at the club, the others being Alan Comfort and Graham Daniels and dubbed by McDonough as "Cambridge's Holy Trinity." 

He writes: "The three of them sat in the changing room with a little black book, discussing their beliefs, when they should have been getting psyched up for a relegation scrap. 

"I would cut out a lurid tabloid newspaper story and stick it on the noticeboard in front of them saying, 'see that pervert. That's what you will end up like. Vicars messing around with the choir boys.' But they just turned the other cheek."

McDonough admits he "completely lost the plot with the God Squad" after a 3-3 draw at Wigan in which snapping:  "I was still in a bad temper after the game, sinking a couple of cans on the coach before launching into a fully blown persecution of the Christians.

"In my mind they were part of the problem. They were too nice on the pitch, not nasty enough to win games, so it was like turning up with eight men each week.

"I battered Moyes first demanding to know why a big ginger Jock from Glasgow Celtic could play with absolutely zero aggression, putting all of his energies into bleating on about Jesus instead.

"Alan Comfort had scored that day, so I gave him a wide berth. But there was no respite for Graham Daniels, who had recently become a father but was out of contract at the end of the season.

He writes: 'And you,' I spewed. 'I'm fighting the world for this team and you're doing nothing. Where is God when we are fighting for our lives and getting beaten every week?

"He's not giving us much help is he? You've no chance of getting an new contract here. Who's going to fend for your baby and put food on the plate?

"Daniels just looked up at the roof of the coach, smiled, and said three words: 'He will provide.' I could have baptized him with a can of beer there and then but I didn't want to waste it. After that I never bothered saying anything again and, and the three of them stuck to their beliefs."

Comfort, who later played for Orient and Middlesbrough, became a vicar. He works in Walthamstow and is Leyton Orient's club chaplain. Daniels is General Director of Christians in Sport.


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DAVID MOYES: WHY IT COULD WELL END IN TEARS - says Frank Worrall

 

Golden handshake from The Boss.

I THINK it may well end in tears: that David Moyes will find the job too big for him and that he will leave with Fergie stepping back into the brink, just as Sir Matt did all those years ago when Wilf McGuinness failed at Man United.

In my not too humble opinion, there were only two men worthy of the Utd job - Guardiola and Mourinho. Inexplicably, Pep was allowed to join Bayern Munich when everyone in the game knows he hankered after Fergie's job. That leaves Mourinho: he should have been chosen over Moyes.

Worrall's warning to Man U.
Some random points as they zip through my head:

1. Moyes is Utd's Roy Hodgson. Just like old Roy, Utd took  him on because he is cheap and he won't upset the applecart. He will keep the majority of the current backroom staff while Jose would have wanted a clean sweep. The Glazers like Moyes because he arrives without having to pay any comp and he costs half what Mou would cost a year.
2. But just as Hodgson is finding the England job a tad too big for him, so Moyes is in for a big shock. I tire of hearing Roy moan about England's lack of players etc - and how he has so tried to convince us we should be grateful to simply qualify for tournaments nowadays. Hodgson is Mr Average: a good boss at West Brom and Fulham, but never big enough for England. Similarly Moyes. Already, I hear people saying he should be given time...that Fergie  took three years to bed in. But ask yourself this: would Mourinho ask to be given time? Or would he expect to hit the  ground running and win at least one trophy, and probably two, in his first season at Old Trafford? That is the difference: a difference of perception and expectation.
3. If you were a big star in South America, would you want to sign for Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho...or David Moyes? Or would you say, 'who' when Moyes was mentioned?
4. Moyes never won anything at Everton and has a total lack of Champions League experience. Not so Mourinho. We are constantly told Moyes did well at Everton - but he didn't win anything. Yet, on even more limited resources, Michael Laudrup won the League Cup in his first season at Swansea City. I'll admit it: I would rather have Laudrup in the Utd hotseat than Moyes,
5. Why was Bobby Charlton instrumental in choosing Moyes? My sources say it was Sir Bobby and Fergie who decided on Moyes. But Bobby has a renowned antipathy towards Mourinho because he is not the politest of chaps. Well, I am sure any Utd fan would rather have a rough and tumble guy - like Fergie, by the way - than someone who is well versed in the noble arts. And Sir Bobby, for all his talents as one of the greatest footballers ever, was one of the lousiest managers ever when he tried his hand at the tiller of the coal face. Just check out his managerial record. He is hardly qualified to judge managerial potential when he had none himself.
6. Moyes' teams at Everton have always been functional. Never entertaining and cavalier as United fans are used to, and indeed demand.
7. Mourinho was still available when Fergie and Charlton plumped for Moyes. It is a dereliction of duty that - as England did with Hodgson - they installed the wrong man in the hotseat.

As I say, it could well end in tears, with Fergie stepping back in temporarily as Utd try desperately to avoid another repeat of the Busby/McGuiness/O'Farrell farce that dogged the club in the 70s. There's a saying that doing the same thing time after time and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity - have United indulged in insanity with their appointment of another O'Farrell so many years after the original blunder?