Uruguay coach Óscar Tabárez says Luis Suarez's transgressions are firmly in the past as he looks poised to throw his fit-again striker into the attack against England.
Tabárez indicated there had been no discussion of Suarez's controversial deliberate handball at the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, when he punched a ball off the line in the quarter-finals against Ghana.
Suarez, who has pronounced himself fit after keyhole surgery on his left knee, has also twice been banned for biting and once for racism during a chequered-if-prolific career. But Tabárez said he didn't intend to remind the 27-year-old about his conduct ahead of Thursday's make-or-break game against England in Sao Paulo.
"I think the image we project is positive. We've received many fair play awards...and I think this proves we have good conduct in our team," he said. "Football is played by human beings, so you need humanity to accept that sometimes human beings make mistakes. It's not possible to start talking about things that happened four years ago. I think we have to concentrate on the future and not start thinking about something that happened four years ago."
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