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No further enactment volition beryllium taken against adjunct referee Constantine Hatzidakis pursuing an incidental involving Liverpool's Andy Robertson, the Football Association has said.
Hatzidakis had been stood down portion an probe was held aft Sunday's lucifer betwixt Liverpool and Arsenal.
He made interaction with Robertson's chin aft the subordinate approached him astatine the extremity of the archetypal fractional astatine Anfield.
"I look guardant to returning to officiating matches," Hatzidakis said.
"I afloat assisted the FA with their probe and person discussed the substance straight with Andy Robertson during an unfastened and affirmative conversation," the lucifer authoritative added.
"It was surely not my volition to marque immoderate interaction with Andy arsenic I pulled my limb distant from him and for that I person apologised."
The FA said it had reached its determination aft thoroughly reviewing each of the evidence.
"Our broad process progressive reviewing elaborate statements from Liverpool and PGMOL, arsenic good arsenic aggregate angles of video footage, successful narration to some the incidental and its surrounding circumstances," an FA connection said.
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