Hull fined £20,000 for Clattenburg dissent

London - Hull City has been fined £20,000 after accepting a charge from England's governing Football Association (FA) of failing to control its players during Saturday's defeat by Arsenal.

Tigers players surrounded referee Mark Clattenburg after Arsenal full-back Kieran Gibbs was merely booked, rather than sent off, for fouling Lazar Markovic when the Hull winger was clear on goal.

Hull was 1-0 down at the time in a match it eventually lost 2-0.

Before the start of this season, the Premier League insisted they would clamp down on players surrounding referees, with officials empowered to show a yellow card for dissent in such circumstances.

Yet the experienced Clattenburg took no such action, and was content to caution Gibbs for the preceding foul alone.

Hull was already annoyed at having conceded a controversial goal in the first half when, after an initial blocked effort from Alexis Sanchez rebounded into the net off the Chile forward's raised hand.

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