Revealed: Arne Slot’s F-word tirade saw Liverpool boss tell Michael Oliver ‘if we don’t win the league, I’ll f***ing blame you’ before swearing twice at assistant referee after Everton draw

Arne Slot told referee Michael Oliver ‘I’ll f***ing blame you’ if Liverpool don’t go on to win the Premier League during a furious X-rated tirade after the draw at Everton.

The Reds boss was hit with a two-match ban and a £70,000 fine following his part in the aftermath of a fierce Merseyside derby at Goodison Park last month.

But it has now been revealed by the Football Association exactly what Slot said to Oliver post match as emotions heightened at the final whistle.

‘If we don’t win the league, I’ll f***ing blame you,’ an independent FA commission determined Slot said to Oliver as the pair shook hands. Slot disputed this language but was overruled.

Slot instead claims he said ‘if we don’t win the league, I will have you to thank for that’, but he did not challenge the remark that he said it was a ‘f**king disgrace’ to the assistant referee.

In his first approach to Oliver, with his two approaches said to be one minute apart, it was revealed he told the referee he had ‘f***ing give [Everton] everything’ and that he hoped that Oliver ‘was proud of that performance.’

It has now been confirmed the Liverpool boss will serve a two-match touchline ban

The Liverpool boss elected for a paper hearing to get his feelings on the episode across and he is said to have acknowledged that frustrations got the better of him due to an overwhelming belief that key decisions had gone against his side.

He also put on record that his X-rated tirade towards officials was not personal abuse and was instead a product of his frustration more generally at the manner of the game, which saw Liverpool concede a 98th-minute equaliser.

It has been stated that Slot made a ‘sincere apology privately’, as well as publicly in a subsequent press conference.

‘I think what happened was that the extra time, that additional five minutes that ended up being eight, a lot happened, and the emotions got the better of me,’ he said.

‘If I look back at it I would love to do it differently. I am hoping to do it differently next time as well.’

As part of Slot’s defence he asked the three-person panel working on the commission to consider his punishment in comparison to five prior cases involving Premier League managers.

Slot requested the following five cases were compared to his own in a bid to show that his own behaviour was far less severe than that of peers in the past.

As part of Slot’s defence he asked the three-person panel working on the commission to consider his punishment in comparison to five prior cases involving Premier League managers

A. The FA v Vincent Kompany (2024)

B. The FA v Nottingham Forest FC v Mr Steven Reid (2024)

C. The FA v Jesse Marsch (2022)

D. The FA v Joseph Barton (2020)

E. The FA v Mauricio Pochettino (2019)

In the case of Reid, he was hit with a £5,000 fine and a two-match touchline ban for aggressively confronting referee Paul Tierney following Nottingham Forest’s match with Liverpool.

It was determined he said to Tierney, ‘I worked with you f***ing lot every f**king week last season. It’s the same every f***ing week you c***’.

In Kompany’s case he was found guilty of calling referee Darren England ‘a f***ing cheat’ multiple times after he was sent off in a match against Chelsea.

In Kompany’s case he was found guilty of calling referee Darren England ‘a f***ing cheat’ multiple times after he was sent off in a match against Chelsea

Slot felt these cases underlined his case warranted a less significant punishment than his own

Slot felt these cases underlined that his case warranted a less significant punishment than his own.

Slot also asked not to be handed an extended touchline ban – which was ignored – and for any touchline ban for himself and assistant Sipke Hulshoff, who was also sent off, to be staggered so as not to derail Liverpool’s squad. This Commission again dismissed his request.

‘We did not consider that the absence of two key individuals in the technical area as a result of multiple offending was compelling reason enough to stagger any match suspension,’ it has been revealed.

Slot was in line to be slapped with a three-match touchline ban as well as a £100,000 fine due to his outburst.

But the FA panel determined that Slot ‘showed contrition and went over and above what we usually see from managers in such circumstances’, which reduced his punishment.