Dunny’s Hairdryer

THE FA have been busy recently and their disciplinary department – and their ‘independent’ commissions – have barely stopped.

Which is probably why some of their punishments become more and more unfathomable.

Kynan Isaac was handed a 10-year ban (with an additional two years) from all football for deliberately earning a booking in a betting scam with friends. Spot-fixing, as it is known. He was playing for Stratford Town against Shrewsbury Town in an FA Cup first-round tie.

Isaac and his mates trying to make a few quid was completely wrong and punishment was appropriate. But TEN years (increased for non-cooperation) was utterly ridiculous.

And now, a little later, Jurgen Klopp (above) gets a 30 grand fine and no touchline ban for screaming in the face of an assistant referee.

A completely different offence, but a sentence every bit as ridiculous as the one given to Isaac and as pathetically lenient as the latter was startlingly draconian.

Procedure means the FA will wait for the written reasons before deciding whether to appeal against the independent commission’s findings. If they do not appeal, their credibility as a fit-for-purpose disciplinary body will be shot to pieces.