Shrewsbury Town lodged a complaint to the FA over Liverpool's approach to the sides' FA Cup fourth-round meeting earlier this season, the club's CEO Brian Caldwell has revealed.
After seeing a much-changed Reds team held to a 2-2 draw at New Meadow, Jurgen Klopp controversially revealed that he would not use a single senior player in the replay at Anfield.
The German's stance resulted from the fixture falling the middle of the Premier League's newly introduced winter break and, true to his word, he left an academy side led by then-U23s boss Neil Critchley to contest it.
Liverpool subsequently slashed ticket prices for the game - gate receipts from which were to be shared between the clubs - while the BBC elected not to broadcast it, resulting in a loss of television money.
And this led the Shrews to feel that Klopp's selection decisions breached the competition's rules - a stance with which the FA did not ultimately concur.
In Pictures | Liverpool vs Shrewsbury | 04/02/2020
In a statement on the club's website, Glanville wrote: "You will recall our incredible come back in the FA Cup Fourth Round tie live on BBC with Liverpool to draw 2-2 back in January.
"Immediately following the match, the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp ruined what should have been a wonderful moment for our club by making public statements that he and all of his first-team would not attend the replay at Anfield, effectively ruining what should have been not just financially but for the players and fans a wonderful achievement and a very special occasion.
"We struggled to believe that his statements had no effect on the replay being televised and we are convinced that LFC broke the FA Cup rules by not ‘fielding their strongest team’ in the return fixture which had a knock-on effect of STFC not getting anywhere near the financial rewards that were to be expected from an FA Cup fourth round replay including a potential live TV fee against the World & European champions and Premier League champions (elect).
"In February we put a complaint in to the FA about the alleged rule breach but unfortunately and quite unexpectedly we were informed that this was dismissed last week (four months on).
"This without doubt resulted in a much lesser occasion for our players and fans as well as the financial reward that would have been expected from LFC playing their strongest team and abiding by the FA Cup rules."