Luis Suarez has hit back at claims he racially abused Patrice Evra at Anfield on Saturday. The Manchester United left-back had accused Suarez of using the same racial insult ‘more than 10 times’. Sources in France said the word Suarez is alleged to have used is ‘n*****’But he responded on Sunday by saying: 'I'm upset by the accusations of racism. I can only say that I have always respected and respect everybody.
'We are all the same. I go to the field with the maximum illusion of a little child who enjoys what he does, not to create conflicts.' Suarez now faces a Football Association investigation after referee Andre Marriner included Evra’s allegations about Suarez’s language in his match report.
Marriner was seen talking to the players after a clash at a second-half corner and Evra was later booked for dissent.France full-back Evra, who was born in the Senegal capital of Dakar, told French TV channel Canal Plus: ‘I was very upset. In 2011 you can’t say things like this. He knows what he said, the ref knows it, it will come out.
‘I won’t repeat what he said, but it was a racist word, and he said it more than ten times. He tried to wind me up. I won’t make a huge deal out of it, but it’s very upsetting and disappointing.’
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