The big news from the Championship this afternoon is that Leeds striker Souleymane Doukara has been suspended for eight weeks for a bite on Fulham defender Fernando Amorebieta during a match in February. The interesting aspect of this story is not the length of the ban, but rather the location of the bite.
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Direct footage of the incident is virtually non-existent but a few replays posted to Twitter by a Leeds fan show that Doukara bit Amorebieta around the nipple.
Have a look at this replay. Amorebieta lifts his jersey and examines his breastbone after the bite.
Now here he is gesturing in the direction of his nipple after the bite.
Amazingly, Amorebieta was yellow carded for protesting, while there was no foul against Doukara. One can only presume the FA has been given comprehensive video evidence to prove the veracity of the bite. Considering the location of the bite, this is arguably a more disturbing bite than either of Luis Suarez's far more memorable flirtations with cannibalism.
