(Reuters) – Liverpool have been fined 37,500 pounds ($46,908.75) by the Football Association after their players surrounded the referee during this month’s 4-1 Premier League defeat at Manchester City.
Several Liverpool players crowded around referee Simon Hooper as they pleaded for him to show City midfielder Rodri a second yellow card for a challenge on Cody Gakpo.
“The club admitted failing to ensure that its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and do not behave in a way which is improper,” the FA said in a statement on Friday.
“An independent regulatory commission imposed Liverpool FC’s fine following a subsequent hearing.”
($1 = 0.7994 pounds)
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
