Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp regrets headlines over comments about referee Paul Tierney

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Jurgen Klopp speaks to the officials aft Liverpool's triumph implicit Tottenham

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says helium regrets the headlines created by his comments astir referee Paul Tierney aft Sunday's 4-3 triumph implicit Tottenham.

Klopp said Tierney appears to person thing "against" his squad aft helium was shown a yellowish paper for celebrating successful beforehand of the 4th official.

Referees' assemblage the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) refuted Klopp's claims.

"The full concern should not person happened astatine all," said Klopp.

"It was retired of emotion and choler successful that moment. That's wherefore I celebrated the mode I did.

"We won a crippled 4-3 successful a spectacular mode and the lone headlines I created and I truly regret that. It's not indispensable and not however it should be."

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Klopp was furious with Spurs being awarded a free-kick which led to their equaliser and ran to shriek astatine the 4th authoritative aft the winner, hurting his limb successful the process.

He was shown a yellowish paper by the referee aft his solemnisation and, speaking astir erstwhile helium was booked, Klopp claimed what Tierney said to him was "not OK".

The PGMOL, the assemblage liable for Premier League referees, said Tierney "acted successful a nonrecreational manner" passim the crippled and erstwhile cautioning Klopp, adding that lucifer officials successful the Premier League are recorded successful each games via a communications system.

Klopp says helium regrets immoderate of the things helium said astir the authoritative successful his post-match interviews but denies helium lied astir their conversation.

"I tried to calm down but it didn't enactment retired properly, spell into each the interviews and past I said what I said," helium added.

"I cognize helium [Tierney] is not doing it intentionally but we person a history, you cannot contradict that.

"I'm not a resentful person, not astatine all, but these benignant things that person happened successful the past successful decisive games. They didn't hap intentionally but they are inactive there.

"The referees are truly aggravated astir what I said. I shouldn't person said a mates of things but lying was not involved."

Klopp was fixed a one-match ban aft helium was sent disconnected against Manchester City successful October for berating the referee's adjunct aft the Football Association (FA) appealed against the archetypal punishment.

He was besides fined £30,000 and warned astir his aboriginal conduct.

The past betwixt Klopp and Tierney

In 2020 Tierney reportedly told Klopp to "get implicit it" aft the referee admitted helium had missed a foul connected Georginio Wijnaldum successful a crippled against Aston Villa.

Tierney was besides successful complaint of a Liverpool crippled astatine Tottenham successful December 2021 erstwhile Spurs striker Harry Kane escaped a reddish paper earlier Liverpool left-back Andrew Robertson was dismissed.

The lucifer ended successful a 2-2 draw which resulted successful the Reds losing crushed to Manchester City successful their Premier League rubric fight.

In January this twelvemonth aft a nonaccomplishment to Brentford, Klopp said helium had approached the officials - including Tierney - to sermon decisions made during the game.

"That's precisely the aforesaid arsenic I would speech to my microwave, you get nary response, really, it's ever the same," he told beIN Sports.

Earlier this month, Tierney booked Liverpool's Robertson aft an incidental involving adjunct referee Constantine Hatzidakis.

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