Jurgen Klopp will be forced to watch his Liverpool side play Southampton from the stands on Saturday afternoon.
The Reds are looking for a second consecutive Premier League victory after picking up a first away win of the season at Tottenham Hotspur last weekend, before the domestic campaign is temporarily brought to a halt for the winter World Cup.
But they will have to do it without their chief commander after Klopp was retrospectively slapped with a one-match touchline ban. The punishment relates to an incident during Liverpool's 1-0 victory against Manchester City at Anfield last month, when Klopp was shown a red card for getting in the face of the referee's assistant and berating him for failing to award a clear foul on Mohamed Salah.
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With the incident included in the referee's post-match report, the German was initially fined £30,000 by an independent regulatory commission. But unhappy with the outcome, the FA appealed the ruling and successfully had the lack of a touchline ban overturned.
As a result, the touchline ban becomes effective immediately, meaning Liverpool's boss must watch the game against Southampton from the stands. Klopp was charged with a breach of FA rule E3. This includes "comments which are improper, which bring the game into disrepute, which are threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting".
In a statement, the FA said: "An independent appeal board has allowed the FA's appeal against an independent regulatory commission's sanction in relation to the recent case involving Jurgen Klopp.
"As a result, the Liverpool FC manager has been suspended from the touchline for one match with immediate effect, fined £30,000, and warned as to his future conduct.
"Jurgen Klopp had previously admitted that he breached FA Rule E3 during their Premier League match against Manchester City FC on Sunday 16 October 2022 and received a sanction of £30,000."
Klopp apologised for his actions straight after the match against Manchester City, but has now been punished retrospectively.
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