Simon Jordan fumes at FA's decision not to give Jurgen Klopp a touchline ban LFC
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“This is the blueprint for how managers feel they can behave towards officials. Self-preservation kicks in and sometimes clever people – of which he is one – will realise the best way to disarm an argument is to agree with it. “‘Yeah I agree, I was out of order’. That doesn’t alter the parameters. It’s like saying, ‘I agree I shouldn’t have burgled that house’. Oh, okay, you’re free to go now!
“So on that basis, the crime that he permitted, it’s not two managers going at one another, it’s not [Thomas] Tuchel and Antonio Conte having a set-to between two managers.“It is somebody challenging the officials in such a way in the structure of the game that it’s affecting outcomes, or trying to.”Keown then recalled the challenge on Salah from Bernardo Silva, saying that you had to put Klopp’s emotional response into context and the FA can appeal it if they don’t like the decision.
“We want to say respecting officials is a fundamental part of the game, so we want our leading lights to uphold that. I’m not in the camp of wanting Jurgen Klopp banned for anything.Keown said that whislt Klopp’s wasn’t right, his apology and fine was enough