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SINGAPORE: After the brawl at Jalan Besar Stadium on Tuesday night involving the Young Lions and Beijing Guoan, the Football Association of Singapore said in a statement on Wednesday that reports from the various officials at the scene have been submitted, and the two clubs have been given till September 14 to respond.
The disciplinary hearing will take place in a fortnight.
The S.League encounter was abandoned by referee Zaid Hussein, after a free-for-all broke out with just one minute of regulation time left on the clock, and the score tied at 1-1.
After the melee, Young Lions' Faritz Abdul Hameed (head injury), Gabriel Quak (arm) and Nazrul Ahmad Nazari (knee) were all discharged from hospital after observation.
The extent of 19-year-old Nazrul's injury remains unclear, but the rest of V Sundramoorthy's boys were back in training on Wednesday.
Team manager Eugene Loo, who received a kick in the back, said: "Incidents like these are unacceptable. The players are remorseful for their actions and are apologetic."
The benches of both teams cleared in the free-for-all, with officials and substitutes running onto the field.
In a video posted online, Beijing's Yu Tianzhu's lunge on Nazrul was what appeared to spark off the fracas.
Young Lions' Khairul Nizam and Quak were involved, along with Beijing skipper Su Boyang and Yu.
But it was an unidentified Beijing substitute's measured and malicious kick to the head of a kneeling Faritz that was the worst.
This is not the first time Beijing have been involved in such ugliness.
On March 24, in the team's 1-0 loss to Balestier Khalsa at Toa Payoh Stadium, three players - including two from the Chinese club - saw red and led to Beijing substitutes attempting to rush onto the pitch.
Said an ex S-League club official who declined to be named: "I believe this is the end of our love affair with Chinese clubs. I don't think they help improve our league and I don't think we did our homework in sizing them up before taking them in."
S.League observer Philip Tay believes a firm stance has to be taken by the FAS.
"We must show that behaviour like this is not welcome in Singapore," he said. - TODAY
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