Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa ordered his team to let Villa score straight from the restart after his side’s controversial opening goal.
Mateusz Klich’s 72nd minute strike sparked a mass brawl between the teams, after Leeds players ignored pleas to kick the ball out of play as Villa striker Jonathan Kodjia lay on the turf injured.
After arguing with Villans boss Dean Smith, Bielsa told his players to allow the visitors to equalise, although not all of Leeds’ men agreed with the decision.
Centre-back Pontus Jansson was shoved by a Villa player and got a telling off from some of his team-mates as he attempted to tackle Albert Adomah as he walked the ball into the net.
But Jones admits he would have done the same and says Villa players were wrong to try and stop the game.
“You’ve got to play on,” the footballer-turned-Hollywood hardman said on Monday’s Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“If the referee thinks its ungentlemanly conduct, he could have blown the whistle before the forward went through and scored, he could have pulled it back.
“And, the Aston Villa players were pointing for it to go out, and all of a sudden they start defending.
“If I was in that situation I would have got on with it.
“The same as Jansson, when he was defending it I think I would have done the same with the adrenaline going.”