Klopp Breached FA Cup Rules And He Wasn’t Punished – Caldwell

Shrewsbury Town chief executive, Brian Caldwell has blasted Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp for breaching FA Cup rules and costing his club money.

Brian recently revealed that Klopp ruined his club financially for making sure his first team players did not play in the FA Cup replay months ago.

According to him, he strongly believes Klopp broke the competition’s rules with that decision but the FA dismissed Shrewsbury Town’s recent compliant against the German coach.

He added that the dismissal of the case is still baffling because the Liverpool boss was obviously in the wrong.

His words, “You will recall our incredible come back in the FA Cup Fourth Round tie live on BBC with Liverpool to draw 2-2 back in January,”

“Immediately following the match, the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp ruined what should have been a wonderful moment for our Club by making public statements that he and all of his first-team would not attend the replay at Anfield, effectively ruining what should have been not just financially but for the players and fans a wonderful achievement and a very special occasion.

“We struggled to believe that his statements had no effect on the replay being televised and we are convinced that LFC broke the FA Cup rules by not ‘fielding their strongest team’ in the return fixture.

“This had a knock-on effect of STFC not getting anywhere near the financial rewards that were to be expected from an FA Cup Fourth Round replay including a potential live TV fee against the World and European Champions and Premier League Champions (elect).”

“In February we put a complaint in to the FA about the alleged rule breach but unfortunately and quite unexpectedly we were informed that this was dismissed last week (four months on).

“This without doubt resulted in a much lesser occasion for our players and fans as well as the financial reward that would have been expected from LFC playing their strongest team and abiding by the FA Cup rules.”