Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp handed one-match touchline ban for Manchester City game rant
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been issued a £30,000 fine, a one-match touchline suspension, and a warning over his conduct moving forward. The German initially received merely a fine, but later admitted to breaking Football Association rules during last month’s Premier League game against Manchester City.
The FA appealed the decision, and the governing body has just declared that they were successful. As a result, he will have to miss his team’s match against Southampton this weekend, which is the final Premier League encounter before the World Cup. Anthony Taylor dismissed Klopp for yelling at assistant referee Gary Beswick to protest the decision not to give the Reds a free-kick.
After the game, Klopp acknowledged that his protestations toward Beswick went too far. However, he insisted that Taylor ought to have given his team a free-kick for fouling Salah. “It’s about emotion, of course. So, of course, red card, my fault. I went over the top in the moment, I don’t think I was disrespectful to anybody but when you look at the pictures back I know myself for 55 years that the way I look in these moments is already worth a red card,” he said.
“I know that, who cares what I say? I lost it in that moment and that is not OK, but I think a little bit as an excuse I would like to mention, how can you not whistle that foul? How on earth is it possible? And I wish I could get an explanation. So, I don’t know what Pep said now in here, probably not a lot, probably very disappointed or frustrated or whatever. But during the game we agreed completely that Anthony Taylor just let the things run. Why would you do that?”
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Although he has already been given a one-match suspension, others believed the penalty should have been far harsher. Chris Sutton, a former Premier League champion, demanded that Klopp be suspended for 10 games due to his actions. “Klopp has since acknowledged he was in the wrong, which is all he can do. But if we want managers to stop behaving in this way, the onus is on the FA to make sure the punishments are enough of a deterrent,” Sutton wrote in the Daily Mail.
“Klopp will be on the touchline against West Ham tonight and that’s wrong. If we want to stamp out this sort of behaviour, immediate bans are a must. They should miss three games, six games, maybe even ten if we truly want to drive home that this behaviour is unacceptable.”
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