Tottenham appeal Rodrigo Bentancur's seven-game ban for Son-Heung min remark

11/20/2024 06:04 AM

Tottenham Hotspur have appealed against Rodrigo Bentancur's seven-game ban for comments he made about team-mate Son Heung-min. Bentancur was given a seven-game ban from domestic games and fined £100,000 ($127k) by an independent commission after he was found to have used "insulting words", and that it was an 'aggravated breach' of the FA’s rules, as his words referred to "ethnic origin, colour, race, nationality". Bentancur had said, with reference to Son, "Sonny, or one of Sonny's cousins, as they all look more or less the same" in an interview on Uruguayan TV in...