LUIS SUAREZ was BOOKED for taking a sneaky look at the VAR screen during Tuesday night’s clash between Atletico Madrid and Lokomotiv Moscow.
With the LaLiga giants leading 1-0, Hector Herrera appeared to handle the ball in the penalty area just five minutes after scoring his side’s opener.
Luis Suarez was booked for taking a look at the VAR monitor over the ref’s shoulder
The ref brandished a yellow card after he caught Suarez peeking at the TVCredit: AFP
As the referee went to take a look at the VAR monitor, Suarez followed and took a cheeky peek over his shoulder.
The former Liverpool and Barcelona striker was promptly shown yellow for the stunt for ‘unsportsmanlike conduct’.
To compound Suarez’s misery, Anton Miranchuk converted the penalty to draw even at one-apiece in Russia.
But Suarez is no stranger to on-field controversy.
As well as being banned for eight matches after being found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra in 2013, Suarez has been caught biting opponents THREE times.
The Uruguayan was caught munching on PSV star Otman Bakkal during his time at Ajax and was banned for seven games.
He was later banned for ten games after he bit then-Chelsea ace Branislav Ivanovic in 2013, before sinking his teeth into Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup.
The latter saw him suspended from all footballing activity for four months.
Suarez was booked as he hunted his first goal in the 2020-21 Champions LeagueCredit: AFP
Suarez was also sent-off during the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals against Ghana for an outrageous, deliberate handball preventing Dominic Adiyiah from scoring in the final minute with the scores level at 1-1.
A penalty was awarded and subsequently missed – with Uruguay ultimately progressing on penalties thanks to Suarez’s ‘save’.
Suarez also once punched Chile star Gonzalo Jara in the face in a heated 2013 international.
Most-recently, Suarez was caught up in a cheat storm over the mandatory Italian exam he would have had to have passed to have completed his failed move to Juventus.
The University of Perugia were believed to be the focus of the police investigations, not Suarez himself after it was claimed the player was given the answers in advance.
Suarez instead moved to Atletico Madrid and has been in good form in the league, including four goals in five LaLiga matches.
The striker is yet to score in the Champions League this season, though.
In an impressive, yet bizarre career, Suarez has also appealed for handball against a GOALKEEPER – in a Copa America clash against Chile last year.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
