FA drop investigation into Mark Clattenburg

Clattenburg had not been refereeing while the case was ongoing and will now return to normal duties. For Chelsea, however, they will have to deal with an FA charge levelled at one of their own players - John Obi Mikel has been charged with using threatening or abusive language and behaviour in the referee’s dressing room at the end of the game.

Chelsea have already reporte the matter to the match delegate, as is standard procedure, but have now made their complaint formally to the FA. The club did, however, confirm that they will not be following up other allegations, saying: “ There was not sufficient evidence to support a second claim to The FA with regard to the alleged verbal abuse of another first team player.”

Clattenburg has had his side of the story heard by the referee’s union, which has decided to back their man fully, so the case has the potential to be highly-charged.