Simon Jordan has stated that the Football Association’s punishment of Jurgen Klopp for his enraged confrontation with referees was insufficient.
The Reds manager was dismissed during the Reds’ victory over Manchester City after his team was denied a free-kick due to a foul on Mohamed Salah. However, he won’t have to watch their next match from the stands.
Instead, the FA fined the German £30,000 after he ran from his technical area and yelled at the officials.
But despite Klopp’s admission that he “lost it” during his team’s 1-0 victory over their title rivals from the previous season and subsequent apology, talkSPORT’s Jordan says the Reds manager shouldn’t get away with his actions.
Simon Jordan’s thoughts on the FA’s punishment of Jurgen Klopp
On Friday’s episode of White and Jordan, the former chairman of Crystal Palace went off on co-host and legendary Arsenal player Martin Keown about the FA’s decision, claiming it was too weak.
Jordan interjected after Keown said that Klopp’s payment and apology were sufficient grounds for the situation to be resolved: “Leave off.”
Keown continued: “If someone is big enough to apologise, I’ll accept that, and the sort of standing [Klopp] has in the game, we should accept it too.”
But Jordan was far from convinced, as he let out a rant about the German’s punishment.
“For someone who spends their time immersed in the welfare of other people, I’m surprised you don’t think the welfare of officials is equally as important,” he said to Keown.
“This is the blueprint for how managers feel they can behave towards officials. Self-preservation kicks in and sometimes clever people – of which he is one – will realise the best way to disarm an argument is to agree with it.
“‘Yeah I agree, I was out of order’. That doesn’t alter the parameters. It’s like saying, ‘I agree I shouldn’t have burgled that house’. Oh, okay, you’re free to go now!
“So on that basis, the crime that he permitted, it’s not two managers going at one another, it’s not [Thomas] Tuchel and Antonio Conte having a set-to between two managers.
“It is somebody challenging the officials in such a way in the structure of the game that it’s affecting outcomes, or trying to.”