Tottenham are appealing against the ban handed to Rodrigo Bentancur by the FA.
The midfielder has been banned for seven games and fined £100,000 after comments about Tottenham captain Heung-min Son.
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The Telegraph says Spurs are now appealing against the sentence.
They are not appealing the ruling itself, but the length of the punishment, which exceeds the FA's minimum six-match ban for racist speech.
Bentancur appeared on a TV program in Uruguay, where he offered the journalist a Son shirt with the following joke: "Sonny's? It could also be Sonny's cousin. They all look the same," Bentancur said, followed by a laugh.
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