from daylife.com
Police officers rush into a tunnel leading to players’ changing rooms after the Asian Cup qualifying soccer match between Singapore and Jordan in Singapore January 28, 2009. Jordan’s football team attacked Singaporean players with bottles and broomsticks after losing an Asian Cup qualifier late on Wednesday, Singaporean newspapers reported on Thursday. Picture taken January 28, 2009.
A Reuters witness at Singapore’s national stadium heard loud shouts for police assistance moments after both teams had walked into a tunnel leading to their changing rooms, and saw police rushing into the tunnel.
‘The Jordanians attacked with whatever they could find, like broomsticks, plastic bottles, dustbins and even a metal electric fan,’ the Straits Times paper quoted Singapore’s team manager Eugene Loo as saying, after he witnessed the minute-long brawl.
The punch-up followed a tense game that Singapore won 2-1, which revitalized the city-state’s Asian Cup qualification campaign.
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