World Cup Diary | World Cup diary: We should all thank Luis Suarez for his consistent commitment to pure entertainment

The Diary had a long rant written here about the Savage from Salto, but let's be fair, we've been reading those all day and don't need another.

Boiled down to a few bullet points:

• He will never stop cheating, even if many were desperate to forget that as he rained amazing goals in from every angle last season.
• Biting IS worse than say Mauro Tassotti's elbow on Luis Enrique in USA 94, for which he received an eight-game ban, the longest for any World Cup crime.
• It is worse because a) it is a pre-meditated act to provoke an opponent into getting sent off, not an act of temper; and b)because it's JUST DAMN WEIRD. Cruel and unusual behaviour deserves cruel and unusual punishment.
• Suarez will never, ever learn or change his behaviour.
• As long as he plays football better than most people in the world, fans, sponsors and teams won't really care despite what they say for PR purposes.
• And finally - we should thank him for being such a constant source of amusement and new plot lines. Football is a soap opera and Suarez is a magnificent villain. We'll all miss him when he serves his ban.

Punters cash in as Suarez chomps down

We only wish we had the foresight to have a bet on Luis's lunch.  

Betting company Betsafe says 167 gamblers in about 20 countries did so, cashing in at odds of 175 to 1.

Betsafe paid out about 50,000 euros in total, marketing head Patrick Oeqvist told AFP.

“We sat down before the World Cup and we thought of which more original  bets would be fun to put up,” Oeqvist said.

“It was not easy to determine the odds, but it turned out great in the end  for those who took the bet.