Bentancur set for lengthy ban over alleged racist remark about teammate

“Sonny brother! I am sorry for what happened, it was a joke in bad taste,” he wrote on social media.

BAN INCOMING: Tottenham are resigned to Rodrigo Bentancur being given a lengthy ban of at least six matches by the FA for making an allegedly racist remark about teammate Son Heung-min. Pic: John Walton/PA Wire.

Tottenham are resigned to Rodrigo Bentancur being given a lengthy ban of at least six matches by the FA for making an allegedly racist remark about teammate Son Heung-min.

The 27-year-old midfielder was charged with an “aggravated breach” of FA rules in September for offensive comments made during a television interview broadcast in Uruguay in June, when he said that Son and his South Korean teammates “all look the same.”