The German has also been fined £75,000 for the breach of the FA’s Rule E3. A second one-match ban has been suspended until the end of the 2023-24 season on the condition that the 55-year-old does not commit any further breaches in that period.
Klopp was found to have breached Rule E3 by an independent commission. His language after Liverpool’s win over Spurs was found to be improper and/or insulting towards a match official.
The Reds boss appeared to clash with referee Paul Tierney after Diogo Jota’s 94th-minute winner. Klopp was booked by the official for confronting and celebrating in front of fourth official Jonathan Brooks.
He then appeared to imply bias on the part of the match officials in a tense interview with Sky Sports soon after. However, he later apologised for the language he used in the exchange with reporter Patrick Davison.
Klopp said in his next press conference: “The whole situation shouldn’t have happened. I didn’t say anything wrong [to Brooks]. I was shouting: ‘Without you, without you’. It didn’t make a lot of sense but that was all.
“Paul Tierney came over to me and I didn’t expect at all a red card because I didn’t feel it was right. I expected a yellow card and he said to me: ‘For me it’s a red card but because of him’ – that’s what I understood because it was loud in the stadium – ‘it’s yellow.’
“Showed me a yellow and smiled to my face. That’s it. The things which were made of what Paul Tierney said to me, I didn’t say. I said: ‘What he said to me was not OK’, and I thought it was not OK because it was not a red card in my view.
“I understand I opened the box. The rest was how I felt in that moment about Paul Tierney reffing our games. I am very sure he is not doing it intentionally but we have a history and I cannot deny that.
“Of course, things didn’t happen intentionally but they are still there and it’s a feeling. I know the refs were really angry about what I said and now go for it. I heard I was lying. I did a lot of things that day but I didn’t lie.”
The PGMOL – the body in charge of professional referees – had been forced to publicly deny that language used by Tierney in his exchange with Klopp was improper.
The Liverpool boss was shown a yellow card by the official and later took aim at the apparent way he had been spoken to, although later conceded his regret over those comments.
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