Arne Slot admits he "can't promise" he will walk away from another potential showdown with match officials despite the Liverpool boss facing a disciplinary rap following his red card at Everton.
Slot has been charged by the Football Association for allegedly having acted "in an improper manner and/or used insulting and/or abusive words and/or behaviour" towards referee Michael Oliver
Both Liverpool and assistant manager Sipke Hulshoff - who was dismissed in the post-match chaos along with midfielder Curtis Jones - have also been charged by the FA.
Slot is facing an extended suspension if found guilty, having already served a one-match touchline ban this season
the Reds boss and Hulshoff - who has been charged both for his red card and his subsequent reaction to the dismissal - having until next Wednesday to respond to the charges
Slot explained such shows of emotion are nothing new, having been involved in previous incidents when a manager in his native Holland.
Slot
"Yeah, (but) if you ask me now when, I don't know exactly,"
"But we are in a business that is quite emotional.
"I'm the type of manager that likes to control as much as I can, so if my player makes a wrong decision, I blame myself because I think I can influence that.
"But there's a part you can't influence, and that's mainly also the most difficult thing. If you have no influence at all and then you get emotional, like I did.
“During the game (against Everton), I wouldn't say I was calm during the game but especially in extra time it was probably just a bit too much to stay calm.
"The best thing I could have done was just walk inside, but unfortunately I didn't."
When asked if he will do that in future as a lesson, Slot said: "I hope, but I can't promise because I'm a human being.
“The way I am now, I would react the way I reacted after the game. But during the game I wasn't planning to react as I did after the game.
“But these seven or eight minutes extra time, if you just watch them back so many incidents happened in those seven or eight minutes that I got too emotional.
“Instead of going inside to calm down and then talk to the referee, I decided to walk on to the pitch, which wasn't the smartest thing to do in hindsight.
"What did I say? I am able to say to my wife and to my friends, but not in the media. But I do remember - I wasn't that emotional that I don't remember what I said."
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