Welcome back. It's been a while. The season is already in full swing but English football will be all the richer for your return.
You have made it very clear you feel persecuted in this country but you should know that we have missed you.
Well, we have missed some of you.
We have missed Suarez the footballer. A footballer of extraordinary talent. We have missed your astonishing skill, your ruthless will to win, your commitment to the tackle, your competitive edge, your obsessive love of scoring, your determination to fight for the cause, your skill, your pace, your power.
We have missed your ability to change a game with a single, mazey run, your ability to trap a ball with the lace of your boot, to land a ball at the foot of a team-mate, seemingly at any pace and at any angle.
But we haven't missed what comes with all that. We understand that a competitive professional will sometimes push the boundaries of fair play but your record is something else entirely. Your persecution complex is totally misguided given your track record, as was your planned escape route from Anfield this summer.
Sometimes your behaviour has been pathetic — the diving and the tantrums — which do not befit such a magnificent footballer. Sometimes your behaviour has been offensive and unacceptable — the biting and the racist language — that do not befit any member of a civilised society, let alone a supposed role model for children around the world (and you must be aware that you are).
In the wake of all your hysterical nonsense, your club have stood
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