Dan Plumley has urged that the FA must punish clubs severely after Aston Villa was punished for failing to control their players against Brentford in the Premier League.
On February 2, the FA confirmed the £180,000 punishment following two mass confrontations in the 2-1 win in December, during which Ollie Watkins and Emi Martinez were involved in scuffles.
The finance expert admitted that it is a significant amount of money for any club, and they have to hit hard to try and stop these incidents from happening in games.
“As we’ve said with other wider fan troubles at the minute and concerns in the stands, it’s on the pitch as well,” he exclusively told Villa News.
“If you get into these situations, you’re going to have to get punished and as we’ve seen there with a particularly heavy fine, that’s the starting point and you have to hit them hard to stamp this out.
“That is a significant amount of money for any club, so you can understand it and other authorities have got to do that or this stuff will carry on and never get solved.”
Unai Emery will never tell his players not to back one another up when moments such as these happen, and they are now a common occurrence in football.
You can go too far though, and Boubacar Kamara was slammed for getting too involved which led to him being sent off and picking up a needless suspension at the time.
This is another warning as the fines will only keep increasing if it happens again, that cannot happen.
