Graham Roberts has suggested that Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp deserves a retrospective ban following a draw at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Spurs held the Premier League title-chasing Reds to a point in North London following a controversial game.
The Liverpool manager was an animated figure throughout.
First, Klopp was furious when Tottenham’s Harry Kane avoided a red card for a studs-up challenge on Andy Robertson.
And then when the visitors were denied a strong penalty claim in the first half.
Robertson himself was sent off by referee Paul Tierney for arguably a lesser offence than the one he was victim to earlier in the game against Kane.
After the match, the Liverpool coach confronted Tierney and his officials, smiling and could be heard saying that the referee ‘never played football’.
Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino was issued a two-match touchline ban for his post-game reaction to a 2-1 defeat at Burnley, where he confronted Mike Dean.
And Spurs legend Roberts has intimated on Twitter that the same punishment should await Klopp.
Will Klopp get banned?
The answer is nope.
Pochettino didn’t get banned for confronting Dean at Turf Moor – he was banned for doing it in an angry, hostile manner.
Inside, the Liverpool manager would’ve been seething yesterday after the game, but he was nowhere near as angry as Pochettino was in 2019.
Confronting referees happens all the time, but there’s a threshold by where it crosses into something else.
Pochettino crossed that line. Klopp didn’t.
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