Soccer: Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been suspended for one match and fined €24,000 after admitting a charge of improper conduct when playing Fulham on December 5th. The sanction means the Uruguayan will miss Friday's visit of Newcastle to Anfield.

Liverpool have also been fined €24,000 for failing to control their players in the same match.

The ruling, announced today by the FA, comes at a sensitive time for the Reds, who have made clear their anger over an eight-game suspension handed to the Uruguayan striker for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.

The Fulham match saw Reds midfielder Jay Spearing sent off, which led to a handful of Liverpool players remonstrating with referee Keith Friend.

The club admitted the charge of failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion but contested the financial penalty.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish was unhappy with many aspects of the game at Fulham, during which Suarez was abused by sections of the crowd who felt he was cheating by going to ground too easily.

In the days after the game the Scot was so incensed by some of the treatment the 24-year-old was subjected to by Fulham players that he used his pre-match press conference to show a DVD of incidents he felt supported his claims.

He was also unhappy with Spearing's dismissal for a tackle on Mousa Dembele but the club decided not to contest either charge.

A statement from the Football Association read: "Liverpool Football Club have been fined £20,000 by The FA and warned as to their future conduct for failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the league fixture at Fulham.

"The club admitted the charge, which was in relation to the dismissal of Jay Spearing, but did not accept the standard £20,000 penalty for the offence. However, at an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing today the fine was imposed.

"Meanwhile, Liverpool player Luis Suarez will begin a one-match suspension with immediate effect after he admitted an FA charge of improper conduct in relation to the same game.

"Suarez was also fined £20,000 and warned as to his future conduct following a gesture he made towards the Fulham fans at the end of the fixture."

Liverpool had no comment to make on either Suarez's ban or the imposition of a fine on the club.