Domestically, it's Man Utd and internationally it's England (because I'm English) but I am not a blind follower of either and fully realise that both are far from saints.
The difference is that, had it been Rooney on the line hand-balling it for either club or country, I would despise him for it just as much as I do Suarez and any victory that followed would feel extremely hollow.
I don't change my appreciation of the difference between right and wrong based on the emblem on a player's shirt. I have been at a game at Old Trafford where Ronaldo has done one of his trademark dives right in front of where I've been sitting and I have got up and berated him for it. I can't stand it, whether it's for a team I'm supporting or against them. Cheating is unacceptable and indefensible in any situation. These are supposed to be professionals but there wasn't any professionalism associated with how Suarez conducted himself at the end of that game.
The problems with dishonesty at the highest level is that, all the while players/teams get away with it (and Uruguay did - Ghana would have won before pens otherwise), what message does that send out to youngsters aspiring to their 'heroes'?
It's a complete farce. A circus conducted on the grandest stage and, unless it's my grumpiness getting the better of me in my old age (
), it's only getting worse as years go by.