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Sky journalist Rob Dorsett has said that the FA will not take any action over the incident involving Aston Villa players Tyrone Mings and Anwar El Ghazi in the game against West Ham on Monday night.

The two players squared up to each other and El Ghazi appeared to move his head towards Mings after the centre-back had accused him of not tracking back.

Dorsett said, “No retrospective action possible because was seen by ref Mike Dean and reviewed by VAR at the time, even though FA laws allow for disciplinary action when violence between teammates.”

Dorsett followed up with the FA decision on West Ham’s Arthur Masuaku, who didn’t leave the pitch straight away after receiving a second yellow card.

FA have looked into referee Mike Dean’s match report after #avfc and #whufc, which referenced Arthur Masuaka’s delay in leaving field after red card,” Dorsett wrote. Took 35secs while he protested the decision. FA decided it will take no further action against him.”

On balance, FA right to take no further action

Masuaku’s sending off was very harsh.

He didn’t seem to make much contact with Ahmed Elmohamady, who went down under a challenge midway through the second half of the game.

Alan Brazil said it was a “garbage” sending off on talkSPORT on Tuesday morning.

“Also West Ham’s sending off for me, that was garbage for me, second yellow, no chance,” Brazil said on talkSPORT (Tuesday, 6am).

Masuaku didn’t leave the pitch straight away but he seemed more confused by the decision than anything else, and he was eventually pushed off by his teammates. 35 seconds isn’t an inordinate amount of time.

The Mings/El Ghazi incident was more serious but while no one wants to see teammates squaring up to each other, the head movement from El Ghazi wasn’t ‘excessive’ and it would have been a soft red.

The referee might have decided to make an example of El Ghazi but we think he was right not to send him off, and the FA are correct to leave it at that.

Simon Jordan said he thought the club should take no further action either.

“I don’t think so,” Jordan said on the Jim White Show (talkSPORT, Tuesday, 11am) when asked if Aston Villa’s owners should get involved in disciplining the players.

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