The FA have charged Town with failing to control their players during last week’s 7-1 defeat at Peterborough.

The club is accused of “failing to ensure its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion with respect to surrounding the match officials” during Saturday’s game, in which both Lee Martin and Tommy Smith were sent off, the first time the Blues had ever had two players dismissed in the same game.

Martin’s red card for a tackle on Peterborough full-back Mark Little was debatable, while Smith was clearly well outside the penalty area when he and Posh striker Lee Tomlin collided, despite referee Graham Scott awarding a spotkick.

Town have until 4pm on Tuesday 30th August to respond to the charge.

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Leoipswich added 16:56 - Aug 25 Wdf? Stupid
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Fixed_It added 16:56 - Aug 25 WTF?!!!
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Radlett_blue added 16:57 - Aug 25 Jewell pleads guilty to the lesser charge of failing to organise his players.
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nsblu1 added 16:57 - Aug 25 Bit of a joke that. Not excusing the result but it seems the lack of offside flags for some of their goals and the ref's performance, particually the pen decission, seems to have been 'overlooked'
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ITFCcharmer added 16:57 - Aug 25 What a joke!
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SuperReuser added 16:58 - Aug 25 what is the punishment? a fine?
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Johnhoz added 17:00 - Aug 25 Whilst I am not a fan of players surrounding officials, they really didn't help themselves at all in this match. The penalty was not a penalty by quite a margin and the linesman didn't even flag for a foul after the Martin challenge yet the ref produced a straight red. More consistent officiating could have prevented the angry reaction from the players.
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NoCanariesAllowed added 17:01 - Aug 25 Best not to take this too seriously, I feel. I believe it's probably standard procedure for when a team has more than one player dismissed in a game - something we're not used to. A bit like when a team is fined for five or more bookings in a game... which we have managed before!
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Bleedingblue added 17:03 - Aug 25 Typical backward FA, the players were only reacting because some of the decisions were SO POOR! What about the muppets in charge of the match? Being charged too or dropped a league? Any news on that front?
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roytheboy added 17:05 - Aug 25 Haven't the FA anything better to do ? did they not expect some player reaction following such dreadful refereeing decisions, the FA would do better in my opinion, to investigate the Referee and ask him to justify why he made two those pathetic decisions, I do not condone players becoming aggressive, however they are only human and must have felt very unhappy as a result.

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harmitfc added 17:06 - Aug 25 Here's some teeth - give them to the FA so they can kick them. I wonder if the FA will charge the officials with failure to control their eyeballs - they were obviously looking at a different game on Saturday judging by some of the decisions made...
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Bleedingblue added 17:07 - Aug 25 Spot on roytheboy. Not gonna let it ruin an otherwise wonderful day though :)
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Londer added 17:07 - Aug 25 The F.A are a joke of Association. Who need a shake up .
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daniel2302 added 17:08 - Aug 25 Sorry but i think Ipswich should take action against this charge, the referee should be charged for failing to make the right decisions and being a total co*k....the boys surronded him because they know dam right he got the wrong decision.....
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Garv added 17:11 - Aug 25 Martin's I will say again was not a foul, fact, and is one of the worst decisions I've ever seen. Smiths was a clear red but no pen (irrelevant). When reading the introduction here I genuinely thought they'd charged us for being rubbish! Ridiculous charge. Poor Barca and Real must get an absolute pasting from the Spanish FA every week, or probably not! #faisbackwards.
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Lightningboy added 17:14 - Aug 25 The FA..waste of space if ever there was one.
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Bluetone added 17:15 - Aug 25 Our crime? Maybe we forgot the little brown envelope.
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bluenut added 17:15 - Aug 25 Disgraceful, linesman didn't even Flag when Martin saw red so no wonder the players argued the point. As for Smith probably was a red but well outside the box. Surely the humiliation is payment enough and surely the Officals performance should be looked at as well. Still over all we were garbage on the day, and deserve everything we get!!
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OnlyOneSirBobby added 17:17 - Aug 25 They go on about wanting respect from the players, but you can't really blame players when there is such awful officiating. Whilst there is no excusing the result and performance, some of the decisions were atrocious and this is another example of how cr@p the FA are...load of b0ll0cks rant over............OH JIMMY BULLLLLLLARDDD :D
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jas0999 added 17:21 - Aug 25 Disappointing really, but I moan enough when the bigger clubs surround the referee - however, they usually get away with it. Smith was RIGHTLY sent off IMO - althopugh clearly no penalty. Martin's was harsh, yet he should know you can't go in like that. Normally means a red.
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petersongoal added 17:22 - Aug 25 can we charge them with failing to go to specsavers?
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clive_baker added 17:27 - Aug 25 Terrible decision. Martins was never a red and the pen wasn't in the area. The ref should be charged.
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raycrawfordswig added 17:34 - Aug 25 F A should be charged with employing F U officials
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ITFC4daprem added 17:35 - Aug 25 so they expect are players to happily stand there doing nothing a watch there team have 2 players harshly sent off, concede 7 goals and have at least 5 or 6 decisions go against us make an appeal
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Hoppersblue10 added 17:40 - Aug 25 That is fair enough.....but what charge is being brought to the officials, there performance was alomst as digraceful as Town's.?
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