Manchester City charged by FA over failure to control players against Spurs

Manchester City has been charged with a breach of FA rule E 20 after their players surrounded a match official during the premier league fixture against Tottenham yesterday. This is what the statement says:

It is alleged that during the 94th minute of the fixture, the club failed to ensure their players did not behave improperly. Manchester City has until Thursday to respond to the charge, it was all around Manchester City being denied the chance to score that late winner when Simon Hooper blew for a foul on Harland with Jack Grealish in behind the Spur’s defense and that was after he initially allowed play to continue. And you see that Halaand was frustrated with that situation demonstrated by the officials before storming down the tunnel.

Manchester City was charged on Monday by FA under rule E20.1 which articulates that the club must ensure that the players do not bear in any way that is improper, threatening, abusive, indecent, insulting, or provocative. Man City has until Thursday to appeal against the charge.

Manchester City striker Haaland dodged censure under the FA’s rules around media use, which permit players to use social media after a game to criticize match officials’ “performance or competence”.He used the word WTF’, on his Twitter account after the match, feeling like they were robbed. And there was so much tension on social media especially Twitter with hashtag robbed trending 1, just after the incident in the pitch.

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