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| Robert Mugabe weighs into Luis Suárez biting debate - a month too late | Robert Mugabe weighs into Luis Suárez biting debate - a month too late |
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| Robert Mugabe has entered the Luis Suárez biting debate, albeit a month after everybody else. | Robert Mugabe has entered the Luis Suárez biting debate, albeit a month after everybody else. |
| The Zimbabwean president, who might be thought to have better things to do what with widespread food shortages devastating his country and the preparation of a new constitution ahead of June elections, said he was surprised to read of the Liverpool striker's latest atrocity. | The Zimbabwean president, who might be thought to have better things to do what with widespread food shortages devastating his country and the preparation of a new constitution ahead of June elections, said he was surprised to read of the Liverpool striker's latest atrocity. |
| "Contests come at various levels. We have these contests - Dynamos versus Highlanders … those are contests at lower levels. They must train our participants to recognise the reality of sport. Sport is sport. It is not war," bulawayo24.com reported him as saying. | |
| Mugabe made the remarks after making the Constitutional Bill law, emphasising that politics, like sporting events, were mere contests. | Mugabe made the remarks after making the Constitutional Bill law, emphasising that politics, like sporting events, were mere contests. |
| Last month Suárez sunk his teeth into the arm of the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic at Anfield, resulting in a 10-match ban from the Football Association. | Last month Suárez sunk his teeth into the arm of the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic at Anfield, resulting in a 10-match ban from the Football Association. |
| That holds out the possibility that Mugabe is pursuing a separate agenda. The president is a self-confessed Chelsea fan. | |