Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra Handshake: Liverpool Forward Refuses To Shake Man U Defender's Hand Pre-Match (Video)

The historic rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool added a new chapter on Saturday when Luis Suarez refused to shake Patrice Evra's hand during the pre-match handshake ceremony.

Suarez recently returned from an eight-match suspension for racial abuse of Evra during a match between the two clubs on October 15, 2011. While Suarez claimed his words were misunderstood and blamed the incident on cultural differences (Suarez is Uruguayan), the English Football Association deemed his acts worthy of punishment following exhaustive analysis of the incident.

Suarez apparently hasn't forgiven Evra for getting him suspended, as he refused to shake Evra's hand after the Frenchman offered it to him before the match. Evra then grabbed Suarez's arm and tried to have a word with him, but the referees intervened and separated the two players.

Update: Luis Suarez Apologizes For Not Shaking Evra's Hand

Man U defender Rio Ferdinand, who was in line behind Evra, then refused to shake Suarez's hand when the Uruguayan reached him in the line. Ferdinand's own brother, Anton, was apparently the victim of racial abuse from Chelsea defender John Terry.

ESPN reported that the two clubs also got into a bit of a squabble in the stadium tunnel when leaving the pitch at halftime.

Manchester United won the match, 2-1, thanks to two goals from Wayne Rooney. Suarez scored Liverpool's only goal on the day.

According to the Guardian, after the match, Man U manager Sir Alex Ferguson said that Suarez should never play for the club again and labeled him a disgrace. From the paper:

"For a club with their history, I'd get rid of him, I really would," Ferguson said. "He is a disgrace to Liverpool Football Club. That player should not be allowed to play for Liverpool again. The history that club has got ... and he does that today. It could have caused a riot. I was really disappointed in that guy."

With the win, Man U goes top of the table with 58 points through 25 matches. Liverpool, meanwhile, falls to seventh place with 39 points.

Comments

[royaro rysdg]

05:43 PM on 07/29/2012

I can't really tell if Suarez is to blame or not. Something I remember of the matches I have seen him on, he complains, fake faults and so on. Even if he was innocent of the accusation, it would be hard to defend him. He needs to change his personality for good.

[StephenHNIC]

11:37 PM on 02/12/2012

Suarez should be lucky he gets to keep playing for Liverpool or any other club. He should be ostracized for life. This is 2012. And Suarez himself is a minority! It's not conceivable that he himself has gone through life without being discriminated against by someone.

No athletic club that relies on commercial sponsors and ticket sales should promote, much less employ, such a despicable human being. He should go back home and learn a trade.

[LeeRose]

02:49 AM on 02/13/2012

I agree and it's disturbing that some Liverpool fans are defending him He has always been a controversial player which is bad for any club. They need to sell him quickly before he embarrasses the club more

[rascalofearth]

10:03 PM on 02/12/2012

Suarez got suspended for 8 games ruining LFC's chance to qualify for the Champion's League. I would not shake the hand of the man who falsely accused me & destroyed my year.

[GlennWatson]

08:58 PM on 02/12/2012

"Evra then grabbed Suarez's arm"

Thats a punk move. The man does not want to shake your hand. Move on.

[lovinlife2]

08:14 PM on 02/12/2012

What??? No handshake?? What's this "sport" coming to?? At least no one was trampled to death in an all-out riot for once. Jolly good, eh what??

[dvglass3]

07:51 PM on 02/12/2012

Lol, soccer players. I thought he was going to fall down and pretend his leg was broken! So childish.

[jstjoe]

12:44 PM on 02/12/2012

ARSENAL !!!

[stjoshy]

09:53 PM on 02/12/2012

man u. checkmate

[cookerman45]

11:52 AM on 02/12/2012

send him too the Yankees..

[luvbird21]

10:50 AM on 02/12/2012

lets not forget Rio Ferdinand kicking a female steward in the tunnel during a game...rooney nearly maiming a player .and getting away with it .seems words are worse than physical injury and seems like all who belong to man u are thugs cascades down from the top me thinks

[luvbird21]

10:45 AM on 02/12/2012

Hello I am so incensed about what is being fed to the people of America I felt I had to write . im from England and the mother of a mixed race child I can tell you that what you are hearing over there is the result of one man alex ferguson manager of manchester united . This man has whipped up a racial storm in the UK and yet the same man criticizes and ridicules soccer officials week in week out because he cannot get his own way he gets away with it cos the FA is frightened of him . He is a well known for his bullying tactics throughout football .Re louis suarez Two Man united officials were on the board that sentenced him ?and patrice evra is well known for accusing people of racial abuse over here in france and Monaco where he appeared at a hotel window randomly swearing in a sort of derranged way . As well as confronting Suarez in the players tunnel at half time He has also insulted suarez's sister referring in a derogatory terms to her lower body parts. This is a witch hunt and it has to stop NOW Stuart Pearce is the latest victim i fear what certain individuals are doing to my country Edit Reply

[JerseyHooligan]

12:49 PM on 02/12/2012

agreed.

[WrongApeture]

10:43 AM on 02/12/2012

What does Fox News have to say about this?

[Roshi98]

11:08 AM on 02/12/2012

Ruppert Murdoch owns Fox and Sky, which is the main sports network in England, and the recriminations against Suarez have been pretty clear.

[Uncle Rico]

10:10 AM on 02/12/2012

Suarez is a p.unk. So is Dalglish.

[Luuke]

03:24 AM on 02/13/2012

So is Scum Furguson....

[Seaniebhoy]

09:41 AM on 02/12/2012

Storm in a bloody tea cup...was the atmosphere on the pitch really toxic? From my point of view (my front room) there didn't appear to be any afters, no physical coming together from the 2 sides....I mean literally the worst thing that happened was one idiot refused to shake hands, and another idiot who celebrated wildly in-front of the other....LOVE HOW NOBODY HAS MENTIONED HOW DROSS THE MATCH ACTUALLY WAS? Yea a lot easier for some hack to write about a guy who didn't shake the hand of another player.

[Roshi98]

11:09 AM on 02/12/2012

It was a poor match, particularly LFC in the second half, but ManU's defense was weak as ever.

[Lohikaarme]

07:39 AM on 02/12/2012

People in the US get away with worse things that saying "negro" by citing religious or cultural differences. Suarez was correct the first time when saying that such term is used to any dark skinned person there and it is not a racist term. For example Peruvians who are usually dark skinned, because of their Inca ancestry, are usually called with that term when working in the mostly white Argentina and Uruguay.

[paul haugen]

08:29 AM on 02/12/2012

Wow. So if he meant to be racist in a Incan way, not in a racist African/Senegalese way. Oh, then it's okay.

You are as blind as Suarez.

[StephenHNIC]

11:41 PM on 02/12/2012

Exactly. I don't see how admitting that he even REFERRED to a man by his skin color helps Suarez in any way.

If I had my way, people like Suarez would all have to go live in Antarctica. Or die there. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, as far as I'm concerned.

[Neymar]

09:31 AM on 02/12/2012

Because USA is a racist country. Lets not lower the rest of the world to their morally corrupt behavior ok?

[Willard365]

10:01 AM on 02/12/2012

Hey Neymar, lighten up a little with the broad brush strokes. Is a noticeable segment of US society less than color-blind? Sure. But Barack got elected somehow. It's complicated. Where are you from?

[sixletters]

12:04 PM on 02/12/2012

The USA is not a racists country, but there are segments of the country that are racists and they have very loud voices.

[Kelechi Madukanya]

04:19 AM on 02/12/2012

EVERYBODY SPEAKS BAD ABOUT SUAREZ HANDSHAKE REFUSAL..THEY FORGET SO SOON THAT THE YOUNG LAD KEPT A COOL HEAD AL-THROUGH THE MATCH..HIS CALMNESS PAID HIM OFF WIT A BEAUTIFULLY TAKEN GOAL..THEY FORGET SO SOON ABOUT RIO FERDINAND,S( A SENIOR PLAYER)HANDSHAKE REFUSAL..THEY ALSO CANT REMEMBER THAT SUAREZ(A PEACEFUL GUY) DIDN'T SHOW ANY SIGN OF RETALIATION WHEN EVRA SHAMELESSLY WAS JUBILATING IN FRONT OF HIS NOSE..

[lackit]

07:44 AM on 02/12/2012

beautifully taken goal ? how drunk were u while watchin Adolf take his tap in ?

[StephenHNIC]

11:43 PM on 02/12/2012

Evra should celebrate in front of that racist punk. Every "negro" in the world should celebrate whenever anything goes wrong for that lunkhead.