The English Soccer Affiliation reject Tottenham’s enchantment to cut back Rodrigo Bentancur’s ban for racist comment.
Tottenham have misplaced their enchantment towards the severity of Uruguay midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur’s seven-match ban for making an offensive remark about South Koreans in relation to a comment about Spurs teammate Son Heung-min.
The Soccer Affiliation mentioned Tuesday that Spurs’ appeal was dismissed following a listening to and the sanction stands, with the explanations for the choice revealed quickly.
Bentancur has already been suspended for five domestic games, and can miss the English League Cup quarterfinal match towards Manchester United on Thursday in addition to the go to of Liverpool within the Premier League on Sunday.
Showing on a Uruguayan tv present in June, Bentancur was requested for a Tottenham participant’s jersey and replied, “Sonny’s?” He added it may very well be Son’s cousin, too, as a result of “roughly they’re all the identical.”
Bentancur later apologised to Son on Instagram, saying it was a “very dangerous joke” and he would “by no means disrespect you or harm you.” Son accepted the apology.
Particulars of the choice launched by the unbiased fee confirmed that Bentancur defined his feedback “had been sarcastic and a mild rebuke” for the journalist calling his teammate “The Korean” and that he challenged the reporter’s description of Son.
In its conclusions, the regulatory fee, nonetheless, wrote that “even on the idea of the participant’s proof and submissions, we take into account the participant’s conduct in utilizing the phrases he did, within the full context through which they had been used, was clearly abusive and insulting, and would quantity to misconduct.”
The fee added that it additionally took into consideration the truth that Bentancur didn’t intend to offend Son or anybody else.
Bentancur was additionally issued with a wonderful of $126,000 by the fee.