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 player Rodrigo Bentancur has been given a seven-match suspension and fined around $126,000 (£100,000) for a comment he made in an interview about teammate Son Heung-min.

In a written submission in his defence on behalf of the player, Tottenham claimed: "Rodrigo's reply was sarcastic and a gentle rebuke for the journalist calling Sonny ‘The Korean’. Rodrigo does not believe that all Koreans ‘look more or less the same’.