Not sure about your FA rules but for us in Australia, he serves his ban when injured. The rule is that a ban is served when you available for selection. If he is medically fit but being rested or eased back in, he can serve the ban during that time period.
If he gets more than one game we should tell the FA to go f**k themselves considering how the likes of Klopp has gotten away with the abuse he has fired at officials lately.
f**k that, its not worked for the last god knows how many years of inconsistencies. I like that players/clubs are holding them accountable.
I'm ok with in-field refs making mistakes, that's just part of the game. It is annoying if your team ends up losing, but that's just human nature. But, when you have two refs that have come out and freely admitted to have made conscious choices to be detrimental to one team (Chelsea in this case), then that 'human nature errors' becomes conscious bias and has to be called out. On the other hand, you have VAR, that was introduced to help refs with those 51/49 calls difficult to make and they are misusing it to a point where it is destroying the joy of the game. They are just plainly cheating or drunk when making some decisions. And, it is difficult not to have a dig at the VAR officials and it should be done. They have the technology and spend a lot of time reviewing some calls, ad they get it wrong in a significant number of occasions not to be suspicious.
The problem is IMO some teams DO without a doubt get preferential media treatment which I think influences some match officials. Case in point SKY Sports right now. It's Fulham v Chelsea kick off just 25 minutes away and all they are talking about is how badly Liverpool have suffered with the VAR decision against Tottenham. Video, slo-mo analysis Carjacker and Sir Frank just talking about it over and over and over and over again. Carjacker saying there is no precedent for what happened. Oh really! Where was the media uproar and analysis when Mike Dean admitted he effectively cheated against us? If this had happened to Chelsea, and it has, more than once, would they be doing this death by slo-mo analysis before a Liverpool game? No they feckin wouldn't.
While there's obvious bias in the media towards particular teams I said elsewhere that, for me the main difference is that Liverpool, the club, has made a big noise about it too. Did our Club make any noise when two refs declared that they had taken conscious decisions to cheat us, and in one occasion even putting some of our players into physical danger by allowing the dirty Spuds to kick them to the ground? No it didn't. The Club needs to start having a go publicly when there's a clear reason for it. It seems that we are trying too hard to get into the good books of the football authorities and these are just taking the piss and it is making no difference in how they treat us.
