Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has explained his pre-match appearance with his kids ahead of victory over Crystal Palace.
Suarez surprised many by appearing on the field with his children, but it is something of a tradition among South Americans and, despite initial resistance from club officials, they gave way on the striker's insistence.
"In England it is not common and the first club people told me I was not going to go with them but I told them that my children were going to come with me, like it or not," he told reporters who greeted his arrival at Montevideo airport in comments reported in Uruguayan newspaper El Pais.
"They understood in the end and it was a nice moment, a unique moment for me.
"They (family) make me think hard and calm me. Nowadays I think a lot of them when I'm on the field.
"I wanted my son to live as I do. I suffered a lot as a child and I do not want my children, or any other child, to experience the circumstances as I did.
"As a parent I try to give them all the love in the world and all the best."
