It seems the FA and Manchester Police will have their hands full this week with formal complaints and charges following the Manchester derby between Manchester United and Manchester City.

Craig Bellamy and Gary Neville are both expected to be called to account for their behaviour immediately after Michael Owen’s injury-time winner while Manchester City are reportedly preparing to take their grievances with the game’s officials to the governing body. The police, meanwhile, have charged a 21-year-old man, Jake Joseph Clarke, with “going on to a playing area without lawful authority or excuse” and are still probing an incident at half-time when City substitute Javier Garrido was apparently struck by a coin thrown from the stands.

Although City’s assistant manager Mark Bowen last night announced that the club will be taking no action against Bellamy after he was pictured striking Clarke, the FA are expected to charge the striker with violent conduct.

Neville could also be in hot water after he ran down the touchline towards the City supporters immediately after Owen had scored. It is not the first time that Neville has been accused of goading the opposition’s supporters having been £5,000 and warned about his future conduct for taunting Liverpool fans in 2006. According to The Guardian, ‘Several City supporters have contacted the FA to complain that he mouthed obscenities in their direction.’

Rather hilariously, Neville, an unused substitute for the match, cut short his celebrations to go through a series of warm-up exercises despite United already making all three of their allotted substitutions.

City may yet cite Neville’s behaviour when they contest the outstanding charge of improper conduct hanging over the suspended Emmanuel Adebayor following his sprint towards the Arsenal supporters last week.

The Daily Mail reports that the club also remain so aggrieved with the amount of injury-time played on Sunday that the club have ‘put together a dossier that questions whether Atkinson was right to play more than six minutes of stoppage time and so allow Owen to deny his side a share of the points.’

Nor do their grievances end there. The Sun says that City are so angry with the behaviour of fourth official Alan Wiley – ‘City are furious with Wiley for shooing away boss Mark Hughes when he questioned where all the added time had come from only to cosy up and share a joke with Ferguson’ – that they will launch a formal complaint against him.

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