Thursday 27 November 2014 21:25, UK
Sam Allardyce accepts the Football Association was correct to charge West Ham for their player misconduct at Goodison Park last Saturday.
Everton and West Ham were charged by the FA for an incident in the latter stages of the first half when a James McCarthy tackle on Morgan Amalfitano provoked an angry reaction from the visiting players and a melee broke out.
McCarthy and Winston Reid were booked by referee Mark Clattenburg and Allardyce admits his players must maintain a greater level of control.
The clubs have until 6pm next Monday to respond to the charge.
“I think we got so frustrated by the decision of the referee at the time that we have lost our control a little bit, so I don’t condone what we did but I can understand why the frustration crept in.
“We have got to try and keep control of ourselves better in these situations because we could have easily lost a player to a red card.
“Both sets of players were involved obviously but we have to try and keep more control. To be fair to my players it’s not very often they do that, very rarely do they lose control.”
