Suarez gets US attention

The Luis Suarez controversy has attracted criticism in the United States with the press calling for Liverpool’s American owners to intervene, a call that judging by yesterday’s apology from the Uruguayan striker and manager Kenny Dalglish has been heeded.

In the United States, The New York Times said Liverpool’s Boston-based owners, Fenway Sports Group, needed to act in order to “repair the club’s global image”.

Leading with the headline “Another Ugly Incident Mars Liverpool’s Good Name”, the Times wrote: “If the Fenway Sports Group is to be the responsible team owner in soccer that it has proved to be in baseball, it needs to get hold of Liverpool, its club in England’s Premier League, and repair its global image fast.

“There was disgrace, witnessed by television viewers around the world, in the refusal of Liverpool’s Luis Suarez to shake the hand of United’s Patrice Evra before kick-off.”