​Swansea City manager Gary Monk has said that he has no idea what sparked the mass brawl between players in the tunnel at Villa Park on Saturday after the Swans' victory, but admitted that 'pretty much everyone' was involved in the melee.





Tempers had flared on the pitch earlier in the match when Villa captain Micah Richards went ballistic at a benign coming together with Swansea's Federico Fernandez, which then saw Richards confronted by Ashley Williams in an incident which saw them both booked.





Monk admitted that he has no idea if that earlier incident was the flash-point for the tunnel brawl, but suggested that it could have been caused by Villa players reacting poorly to their defeat.





In quotes on ​Wales Online, he said: “Obviously when you lose the game, emotions are running high. I think it was more to do with that rather than anything that happened individually. Whether it was Fede I don’t know. I went into the changing room, when I came out it was pretty much everyone. I couldn’t really see so I don’t know what was happening.”





Andre Ayew also spoke after the match, defending his manager from some recent media criticism after the Swans' blip in form, ​saying: "What's important is not who scores but that Swansea win. I think the spirit and unity we showed after six games without victory is great.





"We need to keep that up and really fight because we have a big game on Saturday. We need to be ready. The manager never showed signs of any pressure, he stayed confident and believed in us. We also believed in what we do. We believe in what he puts to us in training.





"We have great confidence in our manager so that wasn't an issue at all. We just wanted to win because we are a family. When you're in a family sometimes things are difficult and you have to be united and fight together. That's what we did on Saturday and we hope we're going to keep up that fighting spirit."



