Following its vehement defence while waiting on Fifa’s judgement, all Uruguay is today grieving with the condemned Luis Suárez, thrown out of the World Cup after his latest biting incident.
‘A Country Suffers With Suárez’ mourns El País which announced that its edition tomorrow will include a souvenir poster of the player inscribed ‘Celeste Oath - We Are All Suárez!’
The Liverpool striker is now a national cause in the small but fiercely proud nation on the east bank of the River Plate. Hundreds of flag-waving supporters many with placards condemning ‘Fifa Corrupta’
turned up at Montevideo’s international airport on last night to show their support for the player, among them the country’s president José Mujica.
Angered and what many believe is a witch-hunt orchestrated by Fleet Street they jumped up and down to the traditional terrace chant of ‘He who doesn’t jump is an Englishman’. But Suárez’s private jet was delayed leaving Natal and when he finally arrived at 5am there were only journalists waiting as a white van whisked him and his family home.
