Chelsea, West Ham Fined for Stamford Bridge Match Chaos

English Football Federation has slammed fines of Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Pounds against Chelsea, and Three Hundred Thousand Pounds against West Ham over a mass confrontation between their players during their Premier League game in January.

The incident occurred in added time during a game at Stamford Bridge when Chelsea forward JOAO PEDRO reacted to a shove by West Ham winger ADAMA TRAORE against the Blues defender MARC CUCURELLA.

Following the chaotic scenes that greeted the encounter, West Ham’s defender JEAN-CLAIR TODIBO was shown a straight red card by referee ANTHONY TAYLOR for grabbing JOAO PEDRO by the neck.

Both Chelsea FC and West Ham were fined for failing to ensure their players did not behave in an improper and or provocative way around the 95th minute.

The FA noted that: "Both clubs subsequently admitted the charges against them."

In imposing the fines, an independent regulatory commission took the fact that both clubs had committed previous breaches of FA Rule E20.1 into account.

The rule states that there should be no behaviour that is "improper, offensive, violent, threatening, abusive, indecent, insulting or provocative".