{"id":488615,"date":"2026-02-18T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488615\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:35:09","slug":"southampton-and-portsmouth-handed-big-fines-for-derby-day-melee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488615\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton and Portsmouth handed big fines for derby day melee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portsmouth and Southampton have both received hefty fines after the mass confrontation that occurred in January’s south coast derby.<\/p>\n

Both clubs admitted a charge of failing to ensure that their players behaved in an improper and\/or provocative way,, external<\/a> with Saints being handed a \u00a350,000 fine, while Portsmouth must pay \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n

With about 20 minutes remaining Flynn Downes and Zak Swanson clashed, external<\/a> after a heavy challenge by Saints midfielder Downes, triggering a melee involving a number of players.<\/p>\n

The second south coast derby of the season ended in a draw.<\/a> Leo Scienza fired Saints into the lead before Ebou Adams headed in a late leveller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portsmouth and Southampton have both received hefty fines after the mass confrontation that occurred in January’s south coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-488615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}