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Chelsea boss Mourinho: Luis Suarez deserves his ban

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says Liverpool striker Luis Suarez deserves his four-month ban.

Suarez sank his teeth into Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini last week and has been handed a four-and-a-half month ban.

Mourinho thinks the suspension is just and told Yahoo: "The punishment is deserved because it is an accumulation of the same negative act on the football pitch."

But the Chelsea boss says Suarez should have been allowed to watch Uruguay face Colombia in the last 16.

Suarez instead returned to his home country to view the game on television.

Mourinho added: "What I really don't like in football is the stadium ban.

"What's the problem for Suárez to be in the stadium, in the middle of the Uruguay supporters watching the game between his country and Colombia?

"It's too hard, it's something that I really don't understand.

"If his punishment comes as a sequence of three similar mistakes in three different situations, it is something that he deserves. It has to stop."

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