Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been suspended for 10 games for violent conduct after biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic, the Football Association has confirmed.

The Uruguayan was captured by TV cameras biting into the defender’s arm in the second half of the two sides’ 2-2 draw at Anfield, before later going on to seal the injury-time equaliser.

Suarez accepted the charge on Tuesday, but rejected the FA’s notion that a three-game ban should be deemed insufficient and has until midday on April 26 to appeal the decision.

The striker is currently set to miss Liverpool’s four remaining Premier League games – including the visit of rivals Everton on May 5 – and the Reds’ opening six games of the 2013-14 season.

The FA statement read: “Luis Suarez has been suspended for a total of ten matches after an Independent Regulatory Commission today ruled on a charge of violent conduct.

“A three-person Independent Regulatory Commission today upheld The FA’s claim that a suspension of three matches was clearly insufficient and the player will serve a further seven first-team matches in addition to the standard three. The suspension begins with immediate effect.”

Sebastian Bauza claims the Liverpool striker is determined to curb his anger issues and has pleaded with him to save his career after being charged with violent conduct by the FA

Luis Suarez has asked Uruguay football federation president Sebastian Bauza to help him save his career after accepting a violent conduct charge for biting Branislav Ivanovic.

The Liverpool striker has turned to Bauza for counsel after finally conceding that he needs to quell his on-field anger following the incident with Ivanovic in the second half of Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Chelsea at Anfield.

Suarez’s punishment will be decided today by a three-man Independent Regulatory Commission and the 26-year-old feels he doesn’t deserve more than a standard three-match ban that was described as “clearly insufficient” by the FA.However, Bauza says his countryman is repentant for his sins and is desperate to change his ways after adding another unsavoury blot to his ever-expanding copybook.

“Luis showed me that he’s sorry for what he did,” Bauza told the Sun. “He recognises he made a mistake, told me he wants to change and that he is open to receive help.

“There’s no doubt Luis made a mistake. But we should help him learn to respect the codes that football has.

“And I firmly believe punishments are not enough. The whole of football has to help him as he brings a lot to sport, being one of the best players in the world.

“The only thing punishments do is deprive us from seeing him on the pitch.”

The Liverpool defender, who broke his leg in 2003, says he would have traded the injury for bite marks, and has dismissed speculation that his Uruguayan team-mate will be axed

Jamie Carragher has played down the severity of Liverpool team-mate Luis Suarez’s bite on Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic, and believes it has been blown out of proportion.

The Uruguay international was charged with violent conduct by the FA and fined £200,000 by the Merseyside club following the incident during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Chelsea at Anfield.

While Carragher acknowledges that the incident was unsavoury and shocking, he is adamant that there are plenty of worse things that can happen on a football pitch, citing a broken leg he suffered 10 years ago.

“The bite was shocking, no question, and everyone who has seen it was amazed,” Carragher wrote in the Daily Mail. “Yet was it worse than a challenge that could end someone’s career?

“I know what it is like to have your leg broken by a reckless tackle. Lucas Neill cost me six months of my career in September 2003 when he played for Blackburn. Would I have preferred to have been bitten? Absolutely.

“I suspect that Branislav Ivanovic, who has conducted himself with great credit in the aftermath, would agree.”

Carragher also dismissed suggestions that Liverpool would need to turf Suarez out of the club in order to restore their integrity and believes the past indiscretions of former players, himself included, prove the 26-year-old is entitled to another chance.

“The way things are now being pitched is that Liverpool have got to do something about the rotten apple in their midst,” he added.

“It is as if Luis is the only player to have represented Liverpool who has ever been embroiled in controversy. That simply isn’t the case.

“Every one of the players I mention regretted what happened and Luis is the same. More importantly, the club stood by every one of them.”