FA charge Villa and SHA

[CT Villan]

That's beyond ridiculous...I really hope we fight them.

Surely the FA are bringing the game in to disrepute with decisions like this - or maybe their Executive Christmas bonus fund needs topping up.

[The Moose]

We're as bad as them, it seems. Hope we have our apology in to the FA. Beggars belief.

[postal]

What you dont realise if that Jack didnt blatently hit his leg against the other player, the Blues "Fan" wouldnt have felt any need to come and attack Jack 5 mins later.
Simple really.
 

[olaftab]

Do you think the goal celebrations will be cited as part of this charge?

[Des Little]

An absolute disgrace.  I hope we contest it.

[phantom limb]

A bottlejob.

[Clampy]

The fact that it took them four days to bring the charges almost feels as if they were looking for something to charge us with.

[Ian.]

Disgraceful. The FA are idiots.

[WRVilla]

Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me at all...

[tomd2103]

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"??

Yep it was a horrendous challenge and only gets worse each time you see it.  Should have been a red.

[Nelly]

Of all the incidents to happen in that game, this probably least deserved re-visiting. It was an awful challenge but I thought the ref had dealt with it already? He could have waved a yellow at any player he thought was over the line in their protests but didn't, so why do the FA have to come back to this one? Especially in the light of what then happened.

It seems like out-of-touch people sat in a boardroom somewhere feeling they really ought to do something but weren't exactly sure what about.

[Drummond]

Of course the other way this might go is that them lot have the book thrown at them for their stewarding and safety etc and there's no moaning about being fair as we've been charged too.

No, sorry, I've been on crack again.

[PeterWithesShin]

That it's the only thing that went on in the game that they've done anything about so far doesn't reflect very well on them.

[Pat McMahon]

Two comments on this:

1) First time I've seen that challenge - how's that not a straight red?  Literally zero attempt to play the ball.  Disgusting tackle.

Me too and I cannot believe it was not a straight red.

The FA are utterly wrong on this. Which does not surprise me.

[D.boy]

First time I have seen that assault on Grealish by Kieftenbeld. How was that not a straight red? No attempt whatsoever to go for the ball and Jack was bloody lucky it wasn't a leg breaker. 100% deliberate to take out Grealish and the ref bottled it.
As for the FA decision .... bloody joke and no more than expected from those idiots. It wont have anything to do with the players goal celebrations as the FA have stated it was regarding the mele after the tackle on Jack.