{"id":366229,"date":"2025-12-24T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366229\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:06:08","slug":"championship-southampton-coventry-city-charged-by-fa-over-melee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366229\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship: Southampton &#038; Coventry City charged by FA over melee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry City and Southampton have been charged by the Football Association over the scenes after the final whistle in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cj4qz1zdz41t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1 draw<\/a> at St Mary&#8217;s on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a melee between several players and staff from both sides, with Sky Blues boss Frank Lampard appearing to exchange words with Saints players before others became involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry led at half-time through Ephron Mason-Clark&#8217;s goal before the game sprung into life in a hectic opening to the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jay Dasilva&#8217;s straight red card for a reckless challenge two minutes after the restart reduced the Sky Blues to 10 players before Nathan Wood equalised for the hosts nine minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The draw meant Coventry missed the opportunity to go eight points clear at the top of the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s alleged that both teams failed to ensure their players and\/or technical area staff did not behave in an improper and\/or provocative way after the final whistle,&#8221; a FA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clubs have until Tuesday, 30 December to respond to the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coventry City and Southampton have been charged by the Football Association over the scenes after the final whistle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-366229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}