By Dominic King for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:16 BST, 7 May 2019 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 7 May 2019
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Never make a promise you cannot keep: it’s an adage drummed into us from childhood in order to prevent disappointment.
Perhaps Luis Suarez should have considered it when took to the stand in Anfield’s media auditorium on Monday evening, ahead of first competitive return to the stadium where he used to frequently provide box office entertainment.
Probed constantly by the Spanish media, Suarez was asked how he would behave following a performance full of fireworks in the Champions League semi-final first leg. He answered with humility and vowed that he would behave as he did when he went back to Groningen with Ajax.
It took less than 45 minutes for Liverpool supporters to turn on Luis Suarez on Tuesday night
The line of questioning was understandable but there was really no need for Suarez to try and secure some favourable PR. There was no need, either, for him to try to pretend that he was something different to what he actually is.
Liverpool fans loved Suarez from the moment he announced himself with a goal on his debut against Stoke City in February 2011 to the moment he played his last game for the club against Newcastle in May 2014; the loved him warts and all.
Not one set of opposition fans liked him. They hated his snarling and his sniping and the way he would get into fights with their players; he would wind them up, put them off, playing with devilment that he garnered on the streets of Salto in Uruguay.
Now the Kop were experiencing the other side of the coin. Suarez had enraged many Liverpudlians in the Nou Camp for the way he
