Who needs Suarez?

There was a certain feeling of Uruguay, resplendent with their ridiculous embittered 'no-one likes us, we don't care' position on the Luis Suarez biting scandal, being on the receiving end of bad karma in Rio de Janeiro.

The Grim Reaper came calling in the form of young James Rodriguez, a classic number 10 in his elusive movements, who thumped one of the goals of this or any World Cup finals into the net from distance in Colombia's graceful 2-0 win over their South American neighbours in the last 16.Let us face it. No neutral wanted Uruguay to suffer anything other than elimination after the quite nonsensical defence of the Liverpool forward Suarez's unwarranted attack on the Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini prior to this get-together.

A lack of contrition or willingness to admit guilt for Suarez's bite on Chiellini led to his four-month worldwide ban from all football activity. If Liverpool are seeking legal redress for being without their leading man at the outset of the Premier League season, they should take issue with the Uruguay FA, whose farcical decision to support Suarez contributed to FIFA's decision to make an example of him.No apologies, no act of contrition - only denial. Liverpool should take note of Uruguay's shambolic stance in how not to behave. Suarez is not worthy of such public fawning over. Otherwise he will continue to feel like he is the wronged party. Uruguay lost all goodwill through this episode. .So much so, that they made a point of hanging his number nine shirt up in the dressing room for all to see prior to this match.