Aberdeen and Hearts are set to discover on Thursday if they will be punished for the melee that led to four players being booked during the recent clash between the sides.
Both clubs were charged with a breach of Scottish FA disciplinary rule 204 ‘where three or more players are involved in a confrontation with the opposing team’ following the incident in the second half of Hearts’ 2-1 win on March 30.
A Hampden hearing will determine if any sanction should be meted, although both clubs are set to contest the charge.
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Referee John Beaton booked Aberdeen pair Dom Ball and Lewis Ferguson and Hearts’ Arnaud Djoum and John Souttar after a flare up that was triggered when Ball and Hearts midfielder Sean Clare clashed over a challenge.
SFA compliance officer Clare Whyte also issued the same notice of complaint to both Celtic and Rangers following an ill-tempered Old Firm match during the same weekend, although those hearings will take place next Thursday.
Hearts and Hibs were both found not guilty over the same charge after a heated Edinburgh derby last October and Levein recently claimed that Whyte was responsible for giving Scottish football a bad name.
He said: “What happens is the compliance officer gets involved, and the pictures are all over the UK.
“It’s almost like the compliance officer is trying to make Scottish football look bad.
“I don’t understand it. We had one earlier in the season and it got thrown out because it was just a nonsense.
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"Aggression is something people don’t like talking about. I think it’s a brilliant thing in football. You need it.
“I don’t know why she’s picking on the clubs – and trying to magnify things that are nothing.”
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