Chelsea and Arsenal fined after admitting FA charge
Chelsea have been £40,000 by the Football Association for failing to control their players in the Premier League game against Arsenal last month.
Amid several flare-ups late in the first half, Arsenal defender Gabriel was sent off and Blues striker Diego Costa received a retrospective ban following an altercation with Laurent Koscielny.
Both teams admitted the charge, and Arsenal have been fined £30,000.
The discrepancy between the two sanctions was down to the previous disciplinary records of both clubs, the FA said.
Costa has served his three-match ban and will return for the 17 October clash with Aston Villa.
08/10/2015 @ 5:35 pm
Everything was instigated by the classless rabble that is Chelsea FC. And now that they are finally back where they belong (in the lower depths of the league and a laughing stock) people can realise that they have never been a ‘big’ club, have bought all their recent success usually playing dour anti-football in the process and still remain a small club that have been RELEGATED more times that they have won titles. Says it all really!