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“She was expected to remain silent, avoid drawing attention, and endure mistreatment or face retaliatory punishment,” the lawsuit said.

The FA investigation is ongoing and the outcome, its timing, and any potential punishment all remain unclear.

From before the Revolution onward, physical punishment or even killing were ways to enforce belonging, to mark the boundary between insiders and outsiders, and to decide who had the right to govern.

Professors and journalists, too, are facing punishment for their comments, provoking a debate over so-called cancel culture.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – and now we have Arne Slot's Liverpool repeating the old Ferguson punishment as they relentlessly pursue victories and trophies.