Liverpool are taking legal advice after facing up to another nightmare scenario with Luis Suarez after their star striker departed the World Cup in disgrace with a four-month ban from all football imposed for biting an opponent.

Luis Suarez’s previous record for biting may be used in evidence when disciplinary chiefs consider the case against him for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini, Fifa has confirmed.

RTÉ football pundit Eamon Dunphy has said that players in other sports escape punishment for “wicked assaults” all the time.

FIFA is expected to make a swift decision on Luis Suarez’s future in the World Cup and the Uruguay striker may play no further part in the tournament after appearing to have bitten Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini.

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli yesterday tendered his resignation in the wake of the country’s elimination from the World Cup in Brazil.

Italy 0 Uruguay 1

Ghana 1 USA 2

The World Cup clash between Mexico and Cameroon went ahead yesterday despite warnings from firefighters that the stadium was unsafe for fans.

The risk of an outbreak of dengue fever during the upcoming soccer World Cup in Brazil is serious enough to warrant a high alert in three of the 12 host cities, according to an early warning system for the disease.

IN A week when we all became more knowledgeable about French rugby in the wake of Jonny Sexton’s big move to Racing Metro, pressure continues to mount on national coach Philippe Saint-André to win the Six Nations with what is regarded as the strongest squad in the competition.

THE problem with the €100 charge on households and the determination of certain TDs to resist it reminds me that in 1906 the government of the British colony of Natal brought in a “hut tax” in Zululand.

AN AIRPLANE crashed and exploded shortly after take-off from Brazil’s northeastern city of Recife early yesterday, killing all 16 people on board, rescue and air force officials said.

FORPADYDEPLASTERER has one last chance to get a win on the board this season in tomorrow’s Boylesports.com Champion Chase on the opening day of the Punchestown Festival.

FORPADYDEPLASTERER could be given one more chance to gain a deserved first success of the season in the Boylesports.com Champion Chase at Punchestown on Tuesday.

LEINSTER coach Michael Cheika has ordered Isa Nacewa to wrap himself up in cotton wool to ensure his availability for Heineken Cup action against Llanelli Scarlets on Saturday week.

The ocean location of the Air France plane crash victims could provide answers to whether the doomed jet broke up in the air, experts said.

Police in Brazil are scouring airport video footage in a bid to identify passengers on the doomed Air France jet, following reports that two terror suspects were aboard when it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

CRASH investigators have said that they may never find black boxes that could explain why an Air France jet plunged into the ocean, as naval teams trawled deep Atlantic waters.

Heavy seas and low cloud today hampered the search for the wreckage of the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

An Air France jet missing with 228 people - including three Irish citizens - on board ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said tonight.

An Air France jet feared to have crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board today reported electrical problems shortly before vanishing.

Richard Collins says first newborn in 14 years had a textbook delivery

Ulster have been boosted by the high-profile announcement of the signing of South African prop BJ Botha from the Natal-based Sharks.

YOU’D think the Rugby World Cup organisers would make life easier for Namibia, one of the tournament’s minnows.

THE Jessica Harrington trained Studmaster, who helped end a nightmare run for the stable when landing the Pierse Hurdle on Sunday, and Martin Pipe’s lightly-raced novice hurdler Acambo are 10-1 joint favourite with the sponsors for the totesport Trophy at Newbury on February 11 following the publication of the weights.

A teenager's leg was amputated after a shark attacked him as he stood fishing in shallow water.