Tottenham to appeal Rodrigo Bentancur ban for Son Heung-min racist remark

Tottenham are readying to entreaty Rodrigo Bentancur’s seven-match prohibition for his racist remark astir Spurs skipper Son Heung-min, according to reports.

The Football Association handed Bentancur the suspension, positive a £100,000 fine, earlier this week after helium suggested that each radical from South Korea ‘looked the same’ during an interrogation successful June.

Bentancur denied the complaint but a connection from the FA connected Monday read: ‘An autarkic Regulatory Commission has imposed a seven-match suspension and £100,000 good connected Rodrigo Bentancur for a breach of FA Rule E3 successful narration to a media interview.

‘It was alleged that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder breached FA Rule E3.1 arsenic helium acted successful an improper mode and/or utilized abusive and/or insulting words and/or brought the crippled into disrepute.

‘It was further alleged that this constitutes an “aggravated breach”, which is defined successful FA Rule E3.2, arsenic it included a notation – whether explicit oregon implied – to nationality and/or contention and/or taste origin.

‘Rodrigo Bentancur denied this charge, but the autarkic Regulatory Commission recovered it to beryllium proven and imposed his sanctions pursuing a hearing.’

What did Rodrigo Bentancur accidental to Son Heung-min?

In an interrogation connected Uruguayan Television programme Por La Camiseta, Bentancur was asked by reporter, Rafa Cotelo, to spot 1 of the shot shirts successful the midfielder’s postulation erstwhile the pursuing speech occurred:

Cotelo: ‘Your shirt… well, what astir the Korean’s shirt?’

Bentancur: ‘Sonny?’

Cotelo: ‘Or a champion.’

Bentancur: ‘Or 1 of Sonny’s cousins arsenic they each look much oregon little the
same.’

According to The Telegraph, Tottenham are not appealing Bentancur’s blameworthy verdict but the nine privation the midfielder’s seven-game prohibition to beryllium reduced.

In 2019, the FA accrued the minimum prohibition for anyone recovered blameworthy of racist maltreatment to six matches.

Bentancur was fixed an further lucifer to the minimum six-game suspension arsenic his comments were considered arsenic an ‘aggravated breach’.

Bentancur apologised for his comments arsenic helium wrote connected societal media: ‘Sonny brother! I apologise to you for what happened, it was conscionable a precise atrocious joke.

‘You cognize I emotion you and I would ne'er disrespect you oregon wounded you oregon anyone else! I emotion you, brother!’

In his effect to Bentancur’s apology, Son wrote: ‘He made a mistake, helium knows this and has apologised.

‘Lolo would not mean to ever intentionally accidental thing offensive. We are brothers and thing has changed astatine all.’

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