Frank Lampard has been fined for his comments after the Merseyside derby.
Lampard took issue with Stuart Attwell’s refusal to award a penalty after Joel Matip tripped Anthony Gordon during Everton’s 2-0 defeat at Anfield in April.
The Blues’ manager suggested that a similar decision would have found in Liverpool’s favour had it involved Mohamed Salah at the opposite end.
“It is a penalty for me. You don’t get them here,” he said at the time.
“If that was Mo Salah at the other end he gets a penalty. I’m not trying to create conflict; it’s just the reality of football.
“I have played in teams in the top half of the league – you get them.
“That was a penalty for sure. It’s a clear foul.”
But the Football Association upheld a charge levelled at Lampard that his remarks implied ‘bias and/or attacked the integrity of the match referee’.
That charge was upheld at an independent hearing, with English football’s governing body confirming Lampard has also received a £30,000 fine.
An FA statement said: “The Everton FC manager made the comments after their Premier League game against Liverpool FC on Sunday 24 April 2022, and he denied that they constitute improper conduct as they imply bias and/or attack the integrity of the match referee – or referees generally – and/or bring the game into disrepute contrary to FA Rule E3.1”
Everton had prefaced Lampard’s looming charge last month by contacting the Professional Game Match Officials Board to challenge the original decision.