Aston Villa and Newcastle were fined £ 30,000 (about $ 217,000) and 20,000 pounds (about $ 144,000), respectively, on Friday (31), for not being able to control their players and members of the committee Technique during an incident in the departure of the Premier League in Boxing Day.
The Villa was pushing in search of a draw in an increasingly physical game on Newcastle, but his task was complicated even more when striker Jhon Duran was expelled 32 minutes for taking a hit at Fabian Schar. The match ended with Newcastle’s 3-0 win.
The furious Colombian kicked a bottle of water before heading to the tunnel. The tensions increased after the end of the first half, which resulted in the expulsion of Newcastle’s technical assistant Jason Tindall and Aston Villa analyst Victor Manas.
“It was claimed that both failed to ensure that their and/or occupants of the technical area were inappropriate and/or provocatively near the tunnel during the break,” the English Football Federation (FA) said in a statement.
An independent regulatory committee fined both clubs and applied a warning, as well as a ban on two games and a fine of 4,000 pounds (approximately $ 30,000) to Manas, after the admission of both clubs and the behavior analyst improper.
It was also alleged that Tindall behaved in an improper way during the same incident, but the regulatory committee did not prove the accusation against him, and he will no longer face any measure.
Duran was also fined £ 15,000 (about $ 108,000) in early January, after admitting that she was improperly behaved in the same match.
