Sheffield United and Plymouth charged over post-match confrontation
Tempers flared after rock-bottom Plymouth kept alive their survival hopes with two goals in the last 10 minutes of Saturday's game
Plymouth and Sheffield United have been charged after the ugly scenes that marred the end of Argyle's 2-1 come-from-behind Championship victory at Home Park on Saturday.
Tempers flared after rock-bottom Plymouth kept alive their survival hopes with two goals in the last 10 minutes from Ryan Hardie and Muhamed Tijani cancelling out Jesurun Rak-Sakyi's first-half strike, dealing a huge blow to United's hopes of automatic promotion.
Blades boss Chris Wilder called his players into an on-pitch huddle at the final whistle but, when walking off, the Blades boss confronted Darko Gyabi and Mustapha Bundu, who appeared to be celebrating in front of United's travelling fans.
Others then got involved as they moved into the tunnel, with the incident caught by television cameras.
An FA spokesperson said: "Plymouth Argyle and Sheffield United have been charged following the mass confrontation at their EFL Championship fixture on Saturday, 12 April.
"It's alleged that both clubs failed to ensure their players and/or technical area staff didn't behave in an improper and/or provocative way around the tunnel area after the final whistle.
"Plymouth Argyle and Sheffield United have to provide their respective responses by Wednesday, 23 April."
Speaking after the match, Wilder had sought to play down the incident, describing it as "absolutely nothing really".
"They're celebrating a big win and they're coming off and unfortunately our supporters are in the stand right next to the tunnel so yeah... get everybody in," he said.
"I spoke to their manager (Miron Muslic) and he was as good as gold, understands the situation as much as I do and the referee and the assessor (do as well)."
Plymouth's win put them three points from safety, but United are five points adrift of the top two with four games remaining.