Luis Suarez has been banned for eight matches. We look at other suspensions handed down.
Luis Suarez has been banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 by the Football Association for racially abusing Patrice Evra.
The Liverpool striker was sanctioned by an FA Independent Regulatory Commission after Evra complained that he was racially abused by the Uruguayan during Manchester United's match at Anfield on October 15.
Here, Sky Sports looks at some other lengthy bans meted out to players in English football:
THE WEDNESDAY THREE
Football was rocked in the early 1960s when The Sunday People reported three Sheffield Wednesday players had bet on their team to lose, pocketing £100 in the process. The investigation uncovered a more sinister betting ring which concluded with the imprisonment of 10 former and present players. David Layne, Peter Swan and Tony Kay were all banned from the game for life - but had their bans lifted after seven years.
ERIC CANTONA
Banned for nine months from football worldwide and ordered to do 120 hours community service as a result of his Kung-Fu kick on Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons in 1995. Cantona was sent off during Manchester United's Selhurst Park meeting with Palace and launched himself over the advertising hoardings at a taunting Simmons as he made his way off the pitch.
MARK BOSNICH
Suspended for nine months in April 2003 after failing a drugs test for cocaine. Had his contract terminated by Chelsea and subsequently lost his appeal against the ban.
RIO FERDINAND
Banned for eight months in December 2003 after failing to take a drugs test in September of the same year.
VINNIE JONES
Given a six-month ban suspended for three years in November 1992 - and fined a then record £20,000 by the FA - for his commentary in a video glorifying football violence and dirty tricks.
PAOLO DI CANIO
The fiery Italian forward was handed an 11-game ban and £10,000 fine for pushing referee Paul Alcock while playing for Sheffield Wednesday in a Premier League match against Arsenal in September 1998.
DAVID PRUTTON
The Southampton midfielder was hit with a 10-game ban and fined £6,000 by the FA after shoving referee Alan Wiley following his red card in a match against Arsenal in 2005.
PAUL DAVIS
The Arsenal midfielder was banned for nine matches and fined £3,000 after punching Southampton's Glenn Cockerill during a match in October 1988.
ROY KEANE
Handed a five-week ban and a £150,000 fine in October 2002 for comments made about Alfie Haaland in his controversial autobiography -
Keane: The Autobiography.
