Liverpool manager Arne Slot receives punishment for Everton red card – will he miss Newcastle clash?
Tensions boiled over in the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, with James Tarkowski’s equaliser deep into stoppage time launching the game into chaos. Both Slot and his assistant Sipke Hulshoff were sent off by Michael Oliver along with Liverpool’s Curtis Jones and Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Now, punishments have been handed out for Slot and Hulshoff, who were shown red cards after approaching referee Oliver after the final whistle.
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An independent regulatory commission has now given Slot and Hulshoff touchline bans after they admitted charges of using an improper manner and/or using insulting and/or abusive words and/or behaviour towards the match officials, with Slot to pay a fine of £70,000 and Hulshoff £7,000. The Football Association also announced Everton have been fined £65,000 and Liverpool £50,000 for failing to ensure their players and/or staff did not behave in an improper way.
Jones and Doucoure clashed after the Everton player celebrated in front of the Liverpool fans, leading Jones to confront him before players and staff from both sides raced over.
Slot will miss tonight’s (February 26) Premier League home game against Newcastle and the visit of Southampton on March 8 but can be on the touchline for next week’s Champions League last-16 first-leg clash against Paris Saint-Germain.
Liverpool assistant first-team coach John Heitinga will take on touchline duties in their absence – who ironically played for Everton in the late 2000s.
Edward Blackmore, 45 from Holt, Wiltshire, claimed in August 2018 that his company OGC Sport Investments had secured a multi-million pound contract with French football team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), forging both a stamp and signature from the Ligue 1 giants. He then used this as leverage to get a £1.8m loan from his in-laws, as well as a £1.68m from a finance company, to buy a house in Bath.
Over the next 18 months, Blackmore repeatedly defaulted on the loan from his in-laws, claiming the money from PSG had been paid into the wrong account, and that the bank had frozen the payment, as well as other lies in an attempt to stall repayment. He also defaulted on the loan with the finance company after paying back just £76,000 in three monthly payments.
