Oh dear. I hope the fine is not coming out of his 'Free Drinks and Bus Fare for Fans' account.

Then PL you owed NO apology and as the decisions were endorsed as certainly not in order , why oh why ,and as the remarks were presumably not in earshot of almost anyone, cannnot the Panels become a whole load more mature , accept that emotion and sentiment come into play ,and direct Officials to at the very least pause for thought before apparently springing into action with a ‘ virtual ‘ card for misbehaviour ?
I'm not asking for ‘double ‘ standards ; Footy is a Sport we all enjoy participating in even from the stands etc : but the philosophy and understanding and interpretation still needs much broader thinking and more education .
Cards , as such , ought to be a last resort ; the aim should be to keep 22 players on the pitch if at all possible .Honesty and integrity should be appreciated and valued ; ‘danger ‘ should be better observed , understood and punished ,but the exaggerated reactions ,of all and any, deserve a personal word of advice ; and there is a patent danger that we are striving for perfection in technical detail but thus failing to allow for human fallibility , errors or simple mistakes .
Improvements demand intelligent and public guidance from the Top down in each aspect of ‘our ‘ game .
My sympathies are very much with PL on this aspect ,I've no knowledge of what he said but the apparent sensitivities need revision !
COYB

So Lambo is fined, fair enough.
And the ref? Any possibility of a performance review or are they all infallible?

Edmundo I agree with you but I would take it a stage further and as a match day team of officials they should all be culpable.
It does seem to me that referees are for whatever reason excluding their assistants more and more these days, I have a personal friend who was a pro. referee and he tells me it is up to the referee whether or not he requires his touch judges assistance for help for on field decisions, which is mystifying to me.
I am not judging what happened at Lincoln by the way because I only saw highlights although it certainly looked a very harsh decision, my point is more they should operate as a team and should be judged as such which I believe would create a better ethic all round.

Lambert would have been better to have kept quite and sent money to the RNIB Guide Dogs to help these refs.

I saw the headline without my glasses and thought it read Lambert Fired! I'm ashamed to say I felt excited for a second or two!!

Won't make much of a dent in his £20,000 a week salary.

Can't we put him on pay per win contract?

The referees performance brought the game into repute too.

Honesty and integrity, Suffolkboy, are you talking about professional football?