<p>One of the most hotly talked about incidents over the past week outside of video games has been a football related incident involving Liverpool striker Luis Suarez biting an opponent during a match&period; As shocking an incident as that was&comma; it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the first of its kind in the Premier League&period; Regardless of that though&comma; and as horrendous an act as it was&comma; one can&&num;8217&semi;t help but see the funny side to it too&period; This got me to thinking&comma; since FIFA games always try to emulate real life football&comma; surely FIFA 14 should include ridiculous features to lighten the mood&period; Here are some of those features&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135805 " id&equals;"quads-ad135805" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3>5&rpar; Time Wasting<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Time wasting is a massive part of football&period; From Barcelona to Reading&comma; all teams take part in time wasting because it works&period; In FIFA games&comma; there is no true ability for players to time waste in matches&period; Every time the ball is with the goalkeeper&comma; the game will automatically shoot the ball for you should you take too long&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t realistic&comma; and takes away from that element of simulation FIFA games are all about&period; Time wasting is a strategic element in football&comma; and so it should be here too&period; Referee&&num;8217&semi;s can always be allowed to give yellow cards when players take too long&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>4&rpar; Running From The Referee<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>I loved this feature in older FIFA games &lpar;at least&comma; I think it was FIFA&&num;8230&semi;&rpar;&period; Whenever you were called up for a foul and were going to be given a yellow card&comma; you could simply run around the field all day long away from the referee&period; Of course&comma; once you gave up and he caught up with you&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;d get a red card where you would&&num;8217&semi;ve just gotten a yellow card&period; It was pretty stupid&comma; but hella funny&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>3&rpar; Biting &amp&semi; Other Horrendous Tackles<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>This is where Luis Suarez comes in&period; He should definitely have a hidden ability where at some random point when a player decides to use Luis Suarez and tackle an opponent&comma; Suarez will just go up to him and bite him&period; Like I said&comma; proper simulation of real world sport needs to go a step further&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have to happen all the time&comma; but it should be there &lpar;preferable when playing against Chelsea&rpar;&period; Suarez shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be alone though&comma; other players with horrendous tackles should be included too&period; Wigan&&num;8217&semi;s Callum McManaman should have an ability to significantly injure opponents with horrendous looking tackles too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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  1. It was FIFA International Soccer (ie. the first one), which I had on the Mega Drive, where you could run away from the ref. Your article is wrong though, if you were getting chased for a yellow, you’d still only get a yellow card when you stopped running away from him.

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