Macclesfield and Wycombe's mass brawl

The Football Association has fined Macclesfield Town and Wycombe Wanderers £9,000 for an injury-time brawl at the Moss Rose on Saturday, 26 February.

Both clubs requested personal hearings but were handed the same punishment.

Macclesfield have already fined every player, the manager and assistant manager involved in the fixture.

The fracas, in a game that Wycombe won 1-0, erupted after Macclesfield's Ricky Sappleton appeared to kick out at Wanderers' Stuart Lewis.

Several players joined in and Sappleton and Emile Sinclair were dismissed, along with Wycombe's David Winfield.

Both clubs have been found guilty of breaking FA rule E20 (a) - a failure to ensure that players and/or officials conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative and/or violent behaviour.

The fines can be appealed against and Macclesfield have said they will issue a statement once they have had time to consider the outcome.

The match was referee James Adcock's debut in a Football League contest.

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