Town manager Jim Magilton's FA disciplinary hearing has been set for Thursday, 1st May. The Blues boss was charged with using abusive and/or insulting words to referee Mick Jones in an incident which saw the official send him to the stands at Stoke City in February.

Magilton was unhappy with the way the home side were using the multi-ball system to their advantage and complained too vociferously to the official.

The Town boss looks likely to be handed a lengthy touchline ban after receiving a fine for a similar offence earlier in the season at Burnley.

Magilton said shortly after the the charge that he would not be appealing, but would state his case against the multi-ball system which he sees as unfair: "I won't be appealing over the decision, there is no point.

"I'll have to take my punishment and get on with it, but there will be managers up and down the country that would have behaved in the same way as I did.

"We don't have multi-ball at our club because we don't need it. Our ballboys and girls throw the ball back as quickly as they can for both teams.

"I'd like to see the ball thrown back to us as quickly as it is to the home side when we are playing away, but it doesn't always happen. In short, I'd like to see the multi-ball system banned."

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