Rodrigo Bentancur has been banned for seven domestic matches by the Football Association for using a racial slur against his Tottenham teammate Son Heung-min.
The midfielder, who has also been fined £100,000, denied the charge, which the FA brought in September and described as an “aggravated breach” of its rules as it included a “reference to nationality and/or race and/or ethnic origin.” It related to a TV interview that Bentancur gave in June while in Uruguay. In it, he was asked to provide a shirt belonging to a Spurs player. “Sonny’s?” Bentancur replied. “It could be Sonny’s cousin too as they all look the same.”
