Albion manager Mark McGhee has been charged by the FA for comments made to a match official at Saturday's controversial 1-0 defeat by Ipswich.

McGhee has been charged with using abusive and/or insulting words to fourth official Jon Beadle.

He has until December 14 to respond.

The Seagulls were furious with the performance of referee Trevor Kettle at Portman Road after he denied Albion three second-half penalties and booked captain Danny Cullip for diving for one of them.

"The ref has made a couple of diabolical decisions" McGhee said after the game.

"First of all Danny Cullip doesn't go down easily. I think it was a penalty and to book Danny just adds insult to injury.

"Leon then stays on his feet. He spends the whole time being criticised for going down too easily. If he goes down the way he usually does it's a stonewall penalty.

"Instead of that he struggles to try to stay on his feet, even though he gets interfered with. He gets his shot away, so I think the referee has got to play an advantage and then he has to give a penalty.

"There's absolutely no doubt in my mind about that."