Tottenham fined £20,000 after accepting FA charge over incident in West Ham game
Micky van de Ven and Pape Sarr were struck by West Ham’s Mohammed Kudus in the 82nd-minute flashpoint.
Tottenham have been fined £20,000 after they accepted a Football Association charge following a melee between their players and West Ham’s towards the end of Saturday’s 4-1 win.
Mohammed Kudus’ foul on Micky van de Ven in the 82nd minute sparked a coming-together, with the Hammers attacker subsequently sent off after he shoved both Van de Ven and Pape Sarr in the face.
Spurs, along with West Ham, were charged by the FA on Tuesday with failing to “ensure their players didn’t behave in an improper and/or provocative way”, and the north London club have accepted the charge.
“Tottenham Hotspur have been fined £20,000 following their Premier League match against West Ham,” an FA statement read.
“It was alleged that the club failed to ensure their players didn’t behave in an improper and/or provocative way around the 82nd minute.
“Tottenham admitted to this charge and accepted the standard penalty.”
Speaking later on Wednesday, Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou said: “That sort of incident with Kudus, apart from that I don’t think it was that feisty a game, I don’t think there were too many cards outside that.
“I’m not really sure what we did wrong. Yeah, there was a coming together, but a couple of our players had hit the deck by then so you would like to think we would go in and at least protect.
“I thought our players controlled themselves, obviously the FA felt differently.
“I didn’t feel there was anything edgy in that game at all. Just a player who lost his composure for a second, Kudus, which I think is not really like him anyways when I’ve seen him as a player, but it happens.
“For the most part, I thought there was a fair bit of restraint. If there was anything more, there is plenty of video evidence to charge players with. I guess the look of it is not great but I don’t think it was anything untoward.”
