Tottenham boss Igor Tudor slapped with FA charge after furious 'cheating' rant

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Igor Tudor has been slapped with a misconduct charge by the Football Association for his furious rant after Tottenham 's 2-1 loss at Fulham .

Tudor was incensed about the decision to award Harry Wilson's sixth-minute opener at Craven Cottage on March 1 after Raul Jimenez seemed to push Spurs centre-back Radu Dragusin in the lead-up to the goal from a Kenny Tete cross.

Jimenez was accused of "cheating" by an irate Tudor in his post-match press conference and the Croatian coach labelled match official Thomas Bramall as a "home team referee" to the BBC's Match of the Day. This has landed the Tottenham boss an FA charge.

"Tottenham Hotspur's Igor Tudor has been charged with misconduct following comments that he made after their game against Fulham on Sunday 1 March in the Premier League ," an FA statement read, reports Football London . "The manager allegedly acted in an improper manner during a post-match interview by making comments that imply bias and/or question integrity and/or are personally offensive in relation to a match official."

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Spurs and Tudor have until Monday to respond to the charge. Tudor will get the opportunity to discuss the charge during Friday's press conference ahead of the visit of Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

The charge comes after Tudor won his first match as Spurs boss on Wednesday night. Tottenham beat Atletico Madrid 3-2 on the night but were knocked out of the Champions League 7-5 on aggregate.

Xavi Simons scored twice in a morale-boosting performance for relegation-threatened Spurs. "It's nice, the sensation and feeling are mixed, of course," Tudor said in his post-match press conference. "We are out, but as you said, it was a sensation of one very good team on the pitch, one very good performance of the players, the energy, as you said before, was very nice.

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"From the first moment, the fans recognised that the team will try to do everything they can do, so from the first moment until the last moment, they were with us, it was beautiful. Thanks."

He added: "Of course the last two games we improved. But as I said the two games before, it's impossible to judge these two games, because what happened in the first 20 minutes against [Atletico] Madrid, there is nothing about the coach, team, tactics, training. There is nothing about it.

"I believe Crystal Palace , the game before, we had 1-0 and total control of the game. Red card so as well, nothing about it. But in football you need confirmation every day, every day, every day, every Sunday.

"There is on Sunday an important game as we know but it will not decide nothing yet. As I said before, it will be decided everything in the last two or three games I believe."

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