Gillingham chairman Paul Scally is heading a five-strong delegation to Wembley today to fight their latest FA charge.

The game’s governing body charged Gillingham with failing to ensure that its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in their game against Millwall.

The December fixture boiled over after a challenge from Millwall’s Joe Martin led to a heated exchange. While Ryan Jackson was down injured Gills loan striker Dominic Samuel also went to ground, claiming afterwards he had been headbutted.

Millwall were also charged with the same offence and they admitted they were in the wrong.

Mr Scally, however, believes his players are innocent and is pleading their case by taking manager Justin Edinburgh and players Josh Wright, Bradley Dack and Jackson to Wembley.

The charge comes shortly after the Gills were fined £2,500 for the same breach of FA Rule E20 (a), of failing to ensure that its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.

Speaking ahead of the afternoon hearing, Mr Scally said: “I am very annoyed we have been charged and I was very annoyed we got charged on the Burton one as well. Both were results of poor refereeing decisions.

“Now we are being charged again after protesting to the referee that our player got stamped on and subsequently another player got headbutted and the referee did nothing about it. You expect better protection from referees than that.

“To add insult to injury Ryan Jackson then gets booked and he hasn’t moved from the floor, he has done nothing wrong.”

Former Gills player Joe Martin was at the centre of the controversy and one of Mr Scally’s gripes was that the Millwall man should have been sent off during the altercation, coming just before half-time in the game at The Den on December 19.

He added: “To add extra insult to injury the FA haven’t charged Joe Martin despite having video evidence showing what he did. What is going on?”