Sheffield Wednesday wing-back Marvin Johnson has been charged with improper/violent conduct by the FA in relation to the elbowing incident during the first half of the Blues’ 2-2 draw with the Owls on Saturday.

The 16th-minute incident in which Johnson elbowed Wes Burns was spotted by the linesman who called over referee Geoff Eltringham, who gave the Blues a penalty, which Owls keeper Cameron Dawson saved from Conor Chaplin.

However, the officials were unable to identify which specific Wednesday player threw the elbow and as a result couldn’t show the red card the offence deserved.

As TWTD reported after the match, retrospective action always seemed likely with video evidence clearly showing that Johnson was the player involved.

Johnson, 32, has been given until Monday 20th February to provide a response.

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Positive_Vibes added 14:53 - Feb 16 Doesn't help us.
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ButchersBrokenNose added 14:58 - Feb 16 Phil: Any response from the 80s musician (I can't remember his name or group) who said "testicles" when you posted this on Linkedin?
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BaddowBlue1 added 15:29 - Feb 16 I hope that they can use the footage that you have provided on here Phil, particularly the pitch level one. Had the ref seen this rather than watching the play the result could have been very different against 10 men and then the suspension kicking in for the following games. Some sort of justice hopefully will be done but they got away with it in this crucial game.

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Stu_boy added 15:30 - Feb 16 There are no guarantees we would have won regardless of if he was sent off Saturday, playing against 10 can often be as tough as playing against 11, just ask Southampton after last Saturday
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ruds added 15:31 - Feb 16 Seems like VAR should have been introduced at our level and then once the problems been ironed out THEN introduced to the top flight!
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Pencilpete added 15:52 - Feb 16 to quote Mikel Arteta - it doesn't put us 2 extra points on the board tho does it ?
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MaySixth added 15:57 - Feb 16 Dirty Northern ba****ds
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tractorboybig added 16:07 - Feb 16 so what...something else to deflect from our plight
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ArnieM added 17:51 - Feb 16 It's quite clear from that footage which player elbowed Burns. Number 18. What more evidence do they need? That footage needs to be sent to the EFL. End of.
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Bazza8564 added 18:36 - Feb 16 Ref cant look 360 and although the lino saw it, he was looking from 60 yards through a crowd of players and doesn't have the benefit of these camera angles. To be honest the Lino gave the Pen, he cant be expected to see though people and work out exactly who it was, so this is inevitable.
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SouperJim added 20:28 - Feb 16 I think he meant it a bit more than it looks from those clips, there's a wider shot that illustrates him putting force into the elbow a bit more
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FreddySteady added 21:20 - Feb 16 Let's move on eh?
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 07:24 - Feb 17 Unacceptable behaviour and rightly charged. I wish we'd scored the penalty, though.
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Wickets added 09:27 - Feb 17 The biggest punishment would of course have been to score the penalty . I find myself asking the question after missing one and scoring one ,which was less than convincing why was Conner still on penalty duty ?
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CraigEdwards added 10:25 - Feb 17 Tobloodylate .co.uk
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