Town and Cambridge United have been charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion by the FA following the clash after the final whistle during the visitors’ 1-0 win at Portman Road last Saturday.

A number of players were involved in a melee, among them Macauley Bonne and Cambridge’s Jubril Okendina and Sam Smith.

An FA statement reads: “Ipswich Town FC and Cambridge United FC have been charged with a breach of FA Rule E20.1 following their game in the EFL League One on Saturday [02/04/22].

“It is alleged that both clubs failed to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion after the final whistle, and they have until Monday [11/04/22] to respond.”

Town say they will not be making any comment at this time.

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Bert added 16:49 - Apr 7 Hardly worthy of a formal charge. Pity the referee has not been charged retrospectively with failing to send off the Cambridge player for clearly punching an Ipswich player.
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Tetley added 16:53 - Apr 7 And the piss poor ref gets a gold medal! The Cambridge no 10 ran the whole length of the pitch and grabbed Thomas, then ran to get a drink hoping to hide from the ref then totally ignored the 4th official who kept telling him to go back over to the ref.
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Suffolkboy added 16:59 - Apr 7 Hope every use is made of whatever video evidence remains available ,AND the Referee and his supporting colleagues are called to account for events leading up to the alleged offences ! Too much kept behind closed doors – again unnecessary secrecy and protectiveness perpetuates the misunderstandings with accompanying lack of satisfaction . COYB
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DaGremloid added 17:01 - Apr 7 Referees are untouchable and yet they are one of the biggest problems in lower league football.
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Millsey added 17:17 - Apr 7 Pity the officials didn't do a better job on the time wasting by CU
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ChrisFelix added 18:51 - Apr 7 This will be a stitch up, similar to the Morsey ban earlier this year. Yet we have to suffer poor officials and there appears nothing can be done to rectify this
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HighgateBlue added 19:05 - Apr 7 Our players are professionals and should behave as such. We are 9th in the league and we lost at home to Cambridge. That is hugely frustrating for all of us. If the fans can behave after yet another year in the middle third of division 3, then the handsomely paid players should also be able to behave. The standard of officiating is a totally separate question.
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Facefacts added 20:10 - Apr 7 Cheating: I'm sick of it. Accrington get away with it, more and more trams do it at Portman Road as it gets results. How do we get promoted out of this league as one of the few teams who don't cheat? Referees can't control it, they have to just go along with it. Ruining football.
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BlueFarmy added 21:08 - Apr 7 The FA should be charged as they failed to ensure their officials conduct themselves in an orderly fashion throughout most of the game, actually most of the season! Fed up of sh1t officials getting away with being sh1t and absolutely nothing done about it, it's week in week out. Get your cards out for time wasting etc if you want the players/fans to respect you then command some respect. None of us would still be in a job if we preformed so badly. It's beyond a joke

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arc added 02:22 - Apr 8 Well, I'm sure this petty little nonsense will pay for the Port at the next FA meeting. Either that, or they could grow up and take their job seriously.
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SouperJim added 08:50 - Apr 8 Not bothered, shows that the players care and were royally hacked off by the result and Cambridge's antics. The day we lose that edge, McKenna has failed.
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Cheshire_Blue added 13:27 - Apr 8 With a decent referee neither of the two incidents involving a number of players would have taken place. That is what the FA should be looking at.
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