Luis Suarez Bit Branislav Ivanovic During Today's Chelsea/Liverpool Match (GIF)

A new type of defense.

We may get on soccer players every once and a while for their flops but when dudes are out there biting their opponents, like Luis Suarez did to Branislav Ivanovic during today's Premier League match between Chelsea and Liverpool, we gotta give them the benefit of the doubt sometimes.

Luckily for Suarez, who received a yellow card earlier in the match, the refs didn't catch the bite. He went on to score the tying goal on a header in extra time to give Liverpool a 2-2 tie.    

Imagine this were to happen in the NBA? Our money would be on Metta World Peace being the first guy, for what it's worth.   

[via The Big Lead]

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