Jude Bellingham ‘needs to be put in his place’ for the comments he made about the referee following Borussia Dortmund’s defeat to Bayern Munich, Simon Jordan has claimed.

The England international is being investigated by police after a criminal complaint was filed over the remarks he made about Felix Zwayer following his side’s 3-2 defeat in ‘Der Klassiker’.

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The 18-year-old was incensed by several decisions in the match and made a serious claim about the referee.

“For me, it wasn’t a penalty,” Bellingham said about teammate Mats Hummels conceding a penalty. “He’s not even looking at the ball, he’s fighting to get it and it hits him.

“You can look at a lot of other decisions in the game. If you give a referee, who has, you know match fixed before, the biggest game in Germany what do you expect?”

He was referring to the fact the official was given a six-month ban by the German FA in 2005 following a match-fixing controversy.

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But talkSPORT co-host Jordan insists the teenager was out of line for dragging the referee back into the scandal and further tarnishing his name – despite not being a key player in the scandal which happened 16 years ago.

“People are going to think I’m mean spirited and it’s an agenda, but sometimes these players get a little bit ahead of themselves,” he told talkSPORT.

“They are the lunatics and shouldn’t be running the asylum and this is an element where players are thinking they can say what they want and get away with it.

“He shouldn’t be talking like this.

“He’s well within his gift to say that’s poor refereeing but when you start to move into territory on something you clearly don’t know about and someone else has fed you that information, you can hide behind the fact he’s 18 years of age, and get away with it as a result of that but, really and truly, he needs to be put in his place here.”

Bellingham may now face retrospective action from the authorities in Germany and Jordan believes the youngster should accept his punishment without complaint.

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“The referee 15, 16 years ago isn’t necessarily someone complicit in match-fixing or an architect of it, he was associated with people that possibility he should have spoken out about,” he added.

“You go forward 15, 16 years and the German FA have decided he’s been redeemed.

“You have got an 18-year-old footballer who thinks he’s got a right to drag him back in to something 15 years ago which he has no prior knowledge of or aware of.

“Jude Bellingham comes from a background where his father is a police officer.

“He should look at things in a certain way and have a certain point of saying it maybe wasn’t the wisest thing he could have done.”