FA charge Villa and SHA

[Risso]

What the actual fuck?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47568983


Birmingham City and Aston Villa have both been charged by the Football Association for failing to control their players during Sunday's Championship match.

There was a melee between players from both teams in the fifth minute after Blues midfielder Maikel Kieftenbeld fouled Villa captain Jack Grealish.

Kiefetenbeld was booked, and Villa went on to win the derby 1-0. with Grealish scoring the winning goal.

The clubs have until Monday to respond.

[Risso]

What did the players actually do wrong exactly?  Most from both sides seemed to be intent on helping Jack.

The FA are a national disgrace, set of wankers.

[Somniloquism]

Anyone have any footage of the incident?

They are obviously trying to deflect from the "other" incident by the looks of it if that is the only thing they are taking from the match.

[olaftab]

It's easier to do that. You wouldn't expect anything else from those spineless wankers.

[KRS]

Just had a “WTF” moment when I saw that as Breaking News on SSN.

[Risso]

I've seem some people say it was to do with the incident after Jack was poleaxed by their idiot defender on about 5 minutes.  But all there was was a tiny bit of handbags of the sort you'd expect after such an incident, the sort of thing that happens in every other game you ever see.  If it was that serious, why did only one yellow card get shown, to the perpetrator?

[ClarrieBlue]

Well if they have finally got round to looking at the game, you would think the more serious charges regarding the attack would follow soon. That can't be the full response surely.

[cdbearsfan]

They can fuck the fuck off with this shit. If they even think about punishing us we should kick the other seventy-one teams out of our league.

[andyh]

What an absolute crock of fucking shit

How about the FA making a big deal out of BCFC being unable to control their fucking brainless  supporters?

[LukeJames]

Hahaha

[fbriai]

If they are charging us for this (40s in):

then I imagine they will now be charging every single team in every single match throughout all 4 divisions from now on.

Ridiculous. They'd clearly decided to go in hard on Jack from the start. Kiefetenbeld was lucky not to be sent off.

Has anyone seen a copy of the actual FA charge?

[Drummond]

I've seem some people say it was to do with the incident after Jack was poleaxed by their idiot defender on about 5 minutes.  But all there was was a tiny bit of handbags of the sort you'd expect after such an incident, the sort of thing that happens in every other game you ever see.  If it was that serious, why did only one yellow card get shown, to the perpetrator?

That's what the FA say it is.

[KRS]

The challenge is about 40 seconds in:

https://youtu.be/hC8tJdKQkqk

I don’t recall anything other than the usual surrounding the ref and pushing after a dirty challenge that you see in most games. It was a heated derby game so hope they don’t try to suggest that this may have contributed to the disgusting incident that happened a few minutes later.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Makes you wonder if they bothered asking the ref "Why did you only show a yellow card for such a blatant reckless assault in the first place"??

[cdbearsfan]

It's nonsense. You could have teams charged in every game, certainly every derby on that basis. Are we to be punished for having lots of local rivals?

In the interests of fairness, they shouldn't be taking any further action against any Small Heath players either. He was booked, correctly. That should be the end of it.