L2 L1-2 (H) Crawley Town Tuesday March 27, 2012. K.O. 7:45PM.

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Bradford City: McLaughlin; Kozluk (Ravenhill 54, Flynn 71), Oliver, Davies, Fry (Wells 55); Fagan, Syers, Bullock, Reid; Dagnall, Hanson. Unused

substitutes: Annerson, Smalley.

Crawley Town: Kuipers; Simpson, Mills, McFadzean; Howell; Davies, Akpan (Cummings 90), Bullman, Torres; L Clarke (Watt 84), Alexander (Davis 87).

Unused substitutes: Shearer, B Clarke, Cummings.

Referee: I Williamson (Berkshire).

City 1 Crawley 2
9:55pm Tuesday 27th March 2012
By Simon Parker

Chris Dagnall's first City goal could not save them from defeat against promotion-chasing Crawley tonight.

The fourth loss in five games - and first at Valley Parade since November - leaves the Bantams still only four points above the drop zone.

And the evening ended in fury with a full-scale brawl, which started between Andrew Davies and Claude Davis and quickly escalated.

City forced the first save of the night and it was a good one as Michel Kuipers tipped away Craig Fagan's shot from a low Kyel Reid cross.

Crawley were a threat going forward and Leon Clarke drove across goal while Jon McLaughlin claimed a header from Sergio Torres. But the half was littered with stoppages which prevented the action from flowing.

The most incident was on the touchline where animated Crawley boss Steve Evans was happy to protest every decision.

But the visitors made a lively start to the second half and took the lead after 54 minutes as Clarke headed home from a Scott Davies free-kick.

Sergio Torres nearly got a second with a snapshot straight at Jon McLaughlin. But City dug in and hit back with an equaliser after 71 minutes, Dagnall heading home from Reid's angled free-kick.

The relief was short-lived and Crawley were back in front five minutes later. Scott Davies had too much speed for Andrew Davies and his cross from the byline was converted by Gary Alexander.

City pushed for a second equaliser with a concerted late spell of pressure. Reid, James Hanson and Davies were all close but Crawley hung on for their fourth win on the bounce.

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Bantams hit with F.A charge
Posted on: Fri 30 Mar 2012

The football club can confirm that the Bantams have been charged with failing to control their players by the Football Association following the

after-match melee that took place after Tuesday night's match with Crawley Town.

The Bantams have until 4:00pm next Tuesday (3 April 2012) to respond to the charge.

The following statement is now visible on www.thefa.com.

Following the events which occurred at the end of the League Two match between Bradford City and Crawley Town on March 27 2012, The FA has issued

the following charges:

> Both Bradford City and Crawley Town have been charged for failing to ensure that their players and/or officials conducted themselves in an

orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour. The clubs have until 4pm on 3 April 2012 to respond to the charge.

> Crawley Town's Pablo Mills has been charged with violent conduct for an on-field incident which occurred outside of the jurisdiction of the

match officials but was reported to The FA. This charge is additional to the dismissal for violent conduct which Mills received after the match.

The player has until 6pm on 30 March 2012 to respond to the charge.

> Crawley Town's Kyle McFadzean has been charged with violent conduct for an on-field incident which was not seen by the match officials but

caught on video. McFadzean has until 6pm on 30 March 2012 to respond to the charge.

The club would like to confirm once again that it is in the middle of holding its own internal inquiry into the events of Tuesday night.

With this in mind, the football club will not be in a position to make any further official comment on the matter until their investigation has

been concluded.

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Trio handed bans
Posted on: Wed 28 Mar 2012
 
City trio Jon McLaughlin, Andrew Davies and Luke Oliver have all received details of their suspensions following Tuesday's after-match brawl

against Crawley Town.

McLaughlin, Oliver and Davies were all shown red cards by match official Mr Iain Williamson in the referee's room following their involvement in

the unsavoury fraca after the full time whistle.

Unless the Football Association decide to take any further action, McLaughlin and Davies will both miss City's next three matches - Plymouth

Argyle (away), Southend United (home) and Shrewsbury Town (away).

Given that Davies' own dismissal was the third during his time on loan with the Bantams this season though, his ban will last five matches.

This means he will miss the sames games as McLaughlin and Oliver, plus the away match at Northampton Town and the home fixture with Macclesfield

Town.

As the football club wait to hear if the Football Association plan to take any further action over the incident, the club itself will be holding

an internal inquiry into the events of Tuesday night.

With this in mind, the football club will not be in a position to make any further official comment on the matter until this investigation have

been concluded.

 

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Parkinson deflated by red card hammer blow
Posted on: Wed 28 Mar 2012
 
City boss Phil Parkinson admitted he had been left totally deflated by the news that he will be without Jon McLaughlin, Luke Oliver and Andrew

Davies for a number of games after the trio's involvement in a brawl after the Bantams' game with Crawley Town this Tuesday.

Davies, Oliver and McLaughlin were all given red cards in the referee's room after the match following an unsavoury fraca between City and

Crawley players after the full time whistle that had initially began due to a confrontation between Davies and Crawley defender Claude Davis.

Davis and fellow Crawley defender Pablo Mills were also dismissed in the same fashion after the match, but Parkinson was understandably far more

concerned after the game about the loss of his own players.

McLaughlin and Oliver look set for a minimum of three games suspended, while Davies will get longer given that the sending off was the third of

his time on loan with City this season.

With Matt Fry and Ricky Ravenhill also picking up knocks during the Crawley fixture and Marcel Seip still sidelined with a shoulder problem, the

whole post-match incident left Parkinson feeling at a new all-time low for his managerial career.

"I can't really remember feeling any lower than this during my whole career in management," revealed a candid Parkinson.

"We have lost the game and then had three players sent off in the dressing rooms after the game.

"I can't really comment on any of the incidents after the match because I didn't really get a clear view of any of it, but the referee seems to

have a clear view in his mind of what he felt happened.

"That is the reason he took the action straight away.

"Until I seen the incidents myself on some footage though, it's difficult for me to comment."

As Parkinson tries to sieve through the rubble caused by this hammer blow and prepare for Saturday's important match at Plymouth Argyle, the

Bantams boss revealed that goalkeeper Matt Duke will be recalled from his loan spell at Northampton Town to step in for McLaughlin.

"The red cards give us lots of problems to put it mildly," added Parkinson.

"We will have to get Matt (Duke) back straight away.

"I still can't quite believe it's all happened though.

"I've never had it in my career before where the referee has walked into the dressing room afterwards, pulled three players out and sent them off

in his room. He has then done the same with two Crawley players.

"If any of our players have indeed thrown any punches then we will punish them heavily. You can't lose your discipline as a player. The referee

is pretty adament that the lads deserved to go, so it looks like there are going to be some heavy fines.

"We have to get up tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and get ready to work hard and go again. No one wants to hear about a hard luck story at the end

of the season, we have to look to come through this set-back."

Looking at the game itself, Parkinson wasn't happy to see a tight contest slip through City's fingers due to two close range goals from Crawley.

He said: "I wasn't happy that we conceded from a set play, but we managed to get ourselves back in the game through Chris (Dagnall).

"So to then get done with the goal that has won it for them is very disappointing. Gary Alexander has had a free header at the back stick.

"The goals conceded and the manner we conceded them were obviously the main disappointing aspects from the game itself - it was a tough game -

but I felt we did, overall, deal with their style of play.

"I don't think there was too much football played in the match because they go from back to front so quickly. It was always going to be a game

about picking up first and second balls.

"Any bit of football on the night was from ourselves but it is all about winning."

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Bradford City 1 Crawley Town 2
Posted on: Wed 28 Mar 2012
 

Tuesday 27 March 2012
npower League 2
Bradford City 1 (Dagnall 72)
Crawley Town 2 (L Clarke 54, Alexander 76)
Kick Off: 7.45pm
at the Coral Windows Stadium

Attendance: 9,773 (82 visitors)

An unsavoury mass brawl after the full time whistle saw five players sent off and managed to totally overshadow City's narrow defeat at the hands

of promotion-chasing Crawley Town during the match itself.

Goals from Crawley's striking duo of Leon Clarke and Gary Alexander, sandwiched either side of Chris Dagnall's maiden strike for City, proved

enough to end the Bantams' eleven match unbeaten home record - but it was the events after the full time whistle that was the main talking point

after the match.

The regrettable incident began when Andrew Davies and Crawley substitute defender Claude Davis appeared to get in a confrontation as the players

and management shook hands after the game.

What initially began with just Davies and Davis though, eventually ended up escalating into an ugly clash involving a number of players from both

sides.

When the dust had finally settled on the whole sorry affair Davies and Davis were both handed red cards in the referees room, while Jon

McLaughlin and Luke Oliver for City and Crawley skipper Pablo Mills were also taken out of their dressing rooms to be given reds for their part

in the brawl as well.

The fallout from the post-match rumble means City boss Phil Parkinson will be without the heart of his back five - McLaughlin, Oliver and Davies

- for the next three games at least.

Davies, in particular, will certainly be in line for further punishment given that the dismissal was his third of the season.

In the game itself, Crawley opener the deadlock around ten minutes after the interval when Clarke swooped to head home a Scott Davies free-kick

from close range.

Parkinson almost instantly switched to a 3-4-1-2 formation, also bringing on two subsitutes in the process, as he looked for his side to respond.

He got the response he was looking for after 72 minutes when Dagnall rose to head home his maiden Bantams goal from a curling Kyel Reid free-

kick.

City's joy at equalising was to prove short-lived, however, when Davies sped to the byline before standing up a cross to the far post for

Alexander to head home close range less than five minutes later.

Parkinson's men pushed like crazy for another leveller as time began to run out, with Hanson and Reid in particular enjoying half-chances, but

they couldn't dig out a second on the night to leave the all talk after the match about the brawl and the ramifications it could have on City's

season.

 


RED CARDS - It has later transpired that Crawley's Claude Davis and Pablo Mills, plus City's Jon McLaughlin, Andrew Davies and Luke Oliver have

all been sent off for their involvement in the fight after the match.

9:45pm - Unsavoury scenes at the end, unfortunately, as Andrew Davies and Claude Davis appear to get into a confrontation after the full time

whistle. The incident eventually ends up involving the majority of the players from both sides.

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From the BBC... (Wednesday afternoon)

FA LAUNCHES BRAWL INVESTIGATION

The Football Association is investigating a brawl after Crawley's win at
Bradford, which equalled the British record of players dismissed.

Bradford City's Andrew Davies, Luke Oliver and goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin
were red-carded, along with Crawley's Pablo Mills and substitute Claude
Davis.

Referee Iain Williamson called the players into his dressing room when
punches were thrown after the game.

The FA will review video evidence of Tuesday's match and talk to both clubs.

Crawley manager Steve Evans said: "If people have acted out of turn they
need to be dealt with."

Major mass dismissals:
• 21 March 2012: Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, assistant Rui Faria,
midfielder Mesut Oezil and Sergio Ramos (later rescinded) were all sent off
during the 1-1 draw with Villarreal. Defender Pepe also received a two-match
ban following the game.
• 13 March 2011: Referee Damian Rubino red cards 36 players, substitutes and
technical staff from Argentine rivals Claypole and Victoriano Arenas.
• 22 February 1997: Five players were dismissed in a British game for the
first time due a two-footed lunge, and later mass brawl, during
Chesterfield's Second Division match with Plymouth Argyle. This record was
equalled in the same year by Bristol Rovers and Wigan Athletic.

A Bradford City spokesman told the BBC: "We are still in the process of
investigating the incident and gathering all the facts from the players. We
have received a disciplinary notice from the Football Association.

"We are taking the incident very seriously and if the chairman or manager
believes the incident warrants fines to the players, we will issue them."

A statement from Crawley read: "Regarding the unfortunate events which took
place at yesterday's game at Bradford City after the final whistle was
blown, Crawley Town cannot make any further comment until the club has had
the opportunity to view the video footage in detail."

The FA rulebook states that players dismissed for violent conduct receive an
automatic three-match ban.

Bradford City's Davies should now be suspended for five games as he had
twice been dismissed earlier in the season, with each red card incurring a
further match ban.

Due to the scale of the confrontation, additional bans could be handed out
to the players, and the clubs could be fined for failing to control their
players.

In 2002, Sheffield United were fined £10,000 by the governing body after
three players were sent off following a series of fights and illegal tackles
in a match with West Bromwich Albion which was abandoned after 82 minutes
when the Blades were reduced to six men due to dismissals and injury.

Bradford City and Crawley could both also issue internal fines and
suspensions following their own independent investigations.



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Friday...uncomfirmed report

The FA haven't charged our (BCAFC) players with any further offence so they stay with their original bans.  The FA have however charged the 2

Crawley players so they could face hefty fines and extended bans.

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Crawley released a statement to say that they are also studying the video before deciding what action to take with their dismissed duo Pablo Mills and Claude Davis. They have not ruled out an appeal.

The statement also said: "We would like to place on record our respect for Bradford City and wish the club and its supporters the best of luck for the rest of the season."

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