Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp totally expects to be punished for his feedback about Paul Tierney however insists he didn’t deliberately name the referee’s integrity into query and has not lied concerning the incident.
While blaming the emotion of a last-gasp 4-3 win over Tottenham, having been 3-0 up, can on no account excuse the Reds boss for charging down the touchline to rejoice wildly in entrance of fourth official John Brooks or his strategies Tierney “had history” with the membership, Klopp stated within the chilly gentle of day, he by no means meant to forged aspersions.
Tierney really seems to have achieved Klopp a favour by not sending him off because the German claimed the referee had advised him his actions on the touchline had been worthy of a crimson card however he selected to difficulty a yellow.
It was that obvious suggestion which led Klopp to say what Tierney stated to him was “not OK”, with the 55-year-old German insisting he has not lied concerning the interplay after the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) rejected Tierney’s actions had been “improper” and insisted a overview of the recording proves Tierney behaved in a “professional manner”.
“With all the things which have been made, I probably have to expect the punishment,” stated Klopp.
“I think the refs think I questioned the integrity (of their colleague), which when I am calm and sitting here I don’t do, but in that moment I just describe my feelings.
“I am very sure he is not doing it intentionally but we have a history and I cannot deny that.
“Of course they didn’t happen intentionally but they are still there and it’s a feeling and nothing else.
“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. I shouldn’t have said a couple of things but lying was not one of them.”
Klopp appears more likely to obtain an prolonged touchline ban on the again of actions on the weekend.
He already served a one-game suspension in November after the Football Association efficiently appealed in opposition to an impartial regulatory fee resolution to solely wonderful him £30,000 with reference to his behaviour in confronting assistant referee Gary Beswick and subsequently being despatched of by referee Anthony Taylor.
He accepts he has introduced this example on himself and stated he regretted permitting his feelings to get the higher of him.
“We won a football game 4-3 in a very spectacular manner and the only headlines are the ones I created and I really regret that,” he stated.
“It is totally not needed and never the way it needs to be.
“The complete scenario shouldn’t have occurred in any respect. It was out of emotion, it was out of anger in that second. That’s why I celebrated the best way I celebrated.
“Paul Tierney came over to me and I didn’t expect at all a red card. I know I had a red card not too long ago but I didn’t expect for a second a red card because I didn’t feel it was right.
“I expected a yellow card in that moment and he (Tierney) 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 – ‘but because of him it’s yellow’. Showed me a yellow and smiled to my face. That’s it.
“The final whistle we go inside and I try to calm down and it didn’t work out properly and I said what I said.
“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. It was not intentional but I opened it.”
Liverpool face Fulham on Wednesday on the lookout for a fourth-successive victory to take care of their unlikely pursuit of Champions League soccer.
There will inevitably be elevated scrutiny on the supervisor, however he stated: “If there is one good thing, I prefer much I am in that situation than any player.
“We will see but I can’t see it will have an influence on the team.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk