{"id":165976,"date":"2015-11-11T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=165976"},"modified":"2015-11-11T06:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T06:50:25","slug":"west-ham-and-chelsea-fined-by-fa-for-failing-to-control-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=165976","title":{"rendered":"West Ham and Chelsea fined by FA for failing to control players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">West Ham and Chelsea have been fined \u00a340,000 and \u00a350,000 respectively by the Football Association after both clubs admitted failing to control players.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment follows the Hammers&#8217; 2-1 win over their London rivals at Upton Park on 24 October.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea had five players booked, and midfielder Nemanja Matic and manager Jose Mourinho were sent off.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham&#8217;s players surrounded referee Jonathan Moss after Matic&#8217;s challenge on Diafra Sakho in the 44th minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charge was for failing to ensure players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion,&#8221; <span class=\"text\">read an FA statement.<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both clubs were also severely warned as to their future conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea players also surrounded the official after Matic, who had been shown a yellow card earlier on, was given a second booking by Moss and dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho was sent to the stands for the second half after going to speak to Moss in the referee&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n<p>He received a one-game stadium ban and \u00a340,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham and Chelsea have been fined \u00a340,000 and \u00a350,000 respectively by the Football Association after both clubs admitted failing to control players. The punishment follows the Hammers&#8217; 2-1 win over their London rivals at Upton Park on 24 October. Chelsea had five players booked, and midfielder Nemanja Matic and manager Jose Mourinho were sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":165977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-165976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}