Liverpool receive new referee verdict over Arne Slot ban as FA demand made - 'they need to'

Arne Slot in Anfield's Main Stand as he served the first of a two-match touchline ban

Decision-makers 'need to spell out' exactly what Arne Slot is and isn't allowed to do whilst banned from the touchline for Liverpool, says former PGMOL chief Keith Hackett.

The Reds' head coach has served one of a two-match ban dealt by the Football Association this week for an incident in the Premier League match vs Everton earlier this month.

On the morning of Wednesday's victory over Newcastle United at Anfield, Liverpool learned the punishment for Slot

Slot was sent off after the Merseyside derby then charged of having 'acted in an improper manner and/or used insulting and/or abusive words and/or behaviour towards both the match referee and an assistant referee

He was to be sentenced to a place in the stands for consecutive Premier League fixtures vs Newcastle two days ago and Southampton

Sipke Hulshoff, is also serving the same suspension with a £7,000 personal fine for the same reasons after the Everton clash.

As a club Liverpool were fined £50,000 and their rivals £65,000 for the charge of having 'failed to ensure their players and/or technical area occupants did not behave in an improper and/or provocative way

in the aftermath, Hackett has zeroed in on whether this is in fact a punishment or merely a hindrance for the Liverpool head coach.

Hackett

“Let’s start with how UEFA operate their touchline ban.

“The manager arrives at the stadium, and is allocated a seat at the side of the UEFA match delegate in the director’s box.”

“He is not allowed in the dressing room, and is unable to communicate in any way with his team, and the coaches, throughout the duration of the game," Hackett, speaking to Football Insider, gave as an alternative example to begin.

"A touchline ban in the English game is a sanction that appears to be more about inconvenience to the manager, whose only real sanction appears to be that he sits in the stand.

“We see them on the phone, clearly influencing, and probably making phone calls to his colleagues with regard to what changes he wants to make etc.

“The acting coach in the technical area is often seen to be wearing an earpiece."

And so, this assessment of Slot's ongoing touchline ban resulted in the former head of refereeing body PGMOL making a demand of those implementing the punishment

Hackett ordered: "We really need clarification from The FA – they need to spell it out."