Town have been fined £2,500 by the FA for the mass confrontation following Jon Nolan’s red card at Lincoln last month with the Imps receiving a £2,000 penalty for their role in the incident, while manager Paul Lambert will contest a charge of improper conduct relating to comments he made after the match.

Nolan was dismissed for a lunge on Harry Anderson in the final minute of the match, which Town lost 1-0 via a controversial penalty, leading to the melee which saw Teddy Bishop and ex-Blues loanee Tayo Edun yellow-carded.

Both clubs admitted the charge of failing to ensure that their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion, a breach of FA Rule E20, with Lincoln handed the lower fine after successfully contesting the standard penalty.

Lambert was shown a red card for confronting referee Kevin Johnson after the final whistle and was handed a one-match touchline ban.

He has now been charged with a breach of FA Rule E3 for his post-match comments. The Blues boss has until Friday to provide his response and is expected to explain his comments the the FA disciplinary panel in person.

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Suffolkboy added 18:38 - Nov 4 Go for it PL : do it in measured fashion , stress the need for integrity and transparency ,and emphasise absolutely everybody in the game is human AND should abide by the same moral standards – that goes for the Referees and Assts (& VAR ) who should never consider their position sacrosanct ! COYB
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BobbyBell added 12:11 - Nov 5 This is so wrong. Complain about a ref and get punished PLUS another ref takes it out on you as well. The standard is awful but remember the next ref also knows that you have complained so be ready for even more bad decisions against you. We have no chance of promotion if we turn the refs against us. Both decisions on Tuesday were outrageous and I believe we will get more of them against us because we dared to complain.

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