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The Anfield club have been left shocked by Holgate’s claim that their Brazil international delivered the most humiliating of insults after a first-half flare-up in Friday night’s televised Mersey derby.
A lip reader, employed by the Sunday Mirror, has studied video footage of the game and says that 21-year-old Holgate twice claimed Firmino had used the “N-word”.
According to the lip reader, there was, however, no evidence from TV pictures to suggest that the Liverpool striker had said anything more offensive than a crude insult uttered in Portuguese.
FA disciplinary chiefs have confirmed that they are looking into the matter after the England Under-21 star