FA to probe crowd disturbances

Last updated : 04 March 2003 By FootyMAD
Pitch invasions and ugly clashes between rival supporters were of great concern to the FA whose spokesman Adrian Bevington said: 'We are already in the process of communicating with Aston Villa following events at last night's match.

"Obviously we are taking what happened very seriously. Our crowd safety advisor will be talking to the police and both clubs to ascertain further details.

"We also deal with reports from any fixtures and we will be looking at the reports at the earliest possible time including the referee, match observer and the police."

Blues were fined £25,000 and warned over their future conduct following pitch invasions which marred the first meeting between the sides' at St.Andrew's in September last year.