Arsenal have been fined £20,000 after admitting to a charge of failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly manner during their Premier League clash with Manchester City on New Year's Day.
The incident is in relation to a penalty being awarded by VAR to the visitors when Bernardo Silva was adjudged to have been fouled by Granit Xhaka, despite the fact that Stuart Attwell had initially dismissed the claim.
In addition, defender Gabriel Magalhaes - who had been booked for dissent in the aftermath of the penalty - was shown his second yellow card for a foul on Gabriel Jesus.
This sparked a furious reaction from the Arsenal players, which the FA have now moved to punish them for.
On Wednesday morning it was announced that the Gunners had been charged.
"Arsenal FC has been charged with a breach of FA Rule E20.1 following its Premier League game against Manchester City on Saturday (01/01/22)," a statement on the FA Spokesperson's Twitter page read.
"It is alleged that Arsenal FC failed to ensure its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the 59th minute and the club has until Friday (07/01/22) to respond."
Well, it hasn't taken Arsenal long to respond as just under 24 hours later it has been confirmed they have accepted this charge and will pay the fine.
With that said, there is still a degree of uncertainty over what Gabriel was initially booked for.
BT Sport coverage during the game claimed that the 24-year-old had been yellow carded for scuffing up the penalty spot before Riyad Mahrez 's scored from 12 yards.
However, Gunners assistant manager Albert Stuivenberg later claimed that it had actually been for a comment made by Gabriel relating to VAR's decision not to advise Attwell to check the pitchside monitor for an Arsenal penalty shout in the first half after a tackle by Ederson on Martin Odegaard.
"He mentioned to me that about the first penalty moment, about Odegaard and he said ‘what happened there then’," the Dutchman said after the game.
"So no dirty language was used or anything like that. It was just a comment. That is what Gabriel told me."
