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Arne Slot responds to the FA publishing his F-word tirade at referee Michael Oliver - as Liverpool boss vows to keep his composure against PSG

Arne Slot has vowed to not lose his temper again and admitted emotions got the better of him in the Merseyside Derby after the FA yesterday published the written reasons for the Liverpool head coach’s two-game ban.

Slot is accused of telling referee Michael Oliver ‘I will f***ing blame you if we don’t win the league’ during an X-rated tirade after the draw at Everton last month. The manager disputed he used this foul language but accepted the charge.

But the Reds boss is keen to put the incident behind him and said on Tuesday: ‘The moment it happened, I was quite emotional for everything that happened in the last seven or eight minutes and maybe the whole game.