Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has been given a seven-game ban for a comment made about Son Heung-min - here is the background

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has been handed a seven-game ban and a £100,000 fine by the English Football Association for using abusive language and bringing the game into disrepute during an interview on Uruguayan TV.

Tottenham Hotspur's Rodrigo Bentancur has been banned for seven matches after the Uruguayan made a racist remark about South Korean people when talking about teammate Son Heung-min during a television appearance,

Rodrigo Bentancur has been banned for seven games and fined £100,000 by the FA for alleged racist comments made about team-mate Heung-Min Son in an interview.It was alleged that the Tottenham

Tottenham's Rodrigo Bentancur was Monday given a seven-match domestic ban by the Football Association over an alleged racist remark made about teammate Son Heung-min in a TV interview.

The Spurs player was handed the suspension and a £100,000 after an independent commission upheld the FA's charges relating to an allegedly racist remark made during a television interview.

Tottenham will be without key midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur for the weeks ahead after he was hit with a seven-game ban and £100,000 fine by the Football Association (FA). The Uruguayan international was in September charged by the FA for suggesting that South Korean team-mate Heung-min Son and his cousins “all look the same”.