Soccer players/hooligans end game early in Beijing v. Singapore match

The Temasek Review is very critical of the Singaporean Government. Having said that, I now have faith our young boys display the same agressive behaviour displayed by the Americans. You need that to kick butts. Poor Singapore players, they act like complete nerds, how can they defend their tiny country? So sad.

I'm curious where this generalization is coming from. Are brawls amongst professional soccer players common in the United States?

Who is saying US soccer teams brawl like that? But certainly it is acceptable behaviour for Hockey games in the US, in fact, that is the attractiveness of the NHL. LOL!

It looks pretty tame compared to the Benny-hill style referee chases that go on in the south american leagues every weekend.

For a different take: http://wildeastfootball.net/?p=180#more-180

That's incredible. That kind of behaviour anywhere in the West would get you arrested. How on earth did they get away with it? Chinese football should be completely ostracized...disgraceful.

@alec - I have to totally disagree. I've yet to find a Chinese pitch that has players willing to play a physical match or that can handle a body-intense match without losing their cool.

Yeah really? Then the NHL would have folded, since fights there makes this soccer match child's play. LOL!

I'm referring specifically to the kick in the back of the head to the Singapore player lying on the ground. Say what you will about NHL, that behaviour would get you banned for life in any self-respecting league. That guy should have been arrested.

In the NHL, I have seen much worst infractions than that, that kick is nothing compared to being whacked by a hockey stick on the head without the helmet. Certainly such behaviour shud result in the player being punished, but being charged, nah!

I don't think it is any coincidence that Chinese teams get into brawls all the time when they travel abroad. Remember when the Chinese national team was doing flying ninja-kicks a few years back when they toured England? They must play a really dirty game.

Just from my own anecdotal experience from playing in China at a recreational level, Chinese players clutch / grab / push far more than anywhere else I've ever played. And the Chinese referees very rarely call it. If the same style trickles into the higher levels this may be the root of the animosity.

I hope that Singaporean player offered an abject apology for the violent manner in which the back of his head collided with the Beijing Guo An substitute's boot while he was lying on the ground. Such shameless agression is unforgiveable.

Are you watching Sepp Blatter?

You are so predictable and so quick to pick up side, like last year when you picked up side between two street gangs. "Either with us or with... well...terrorist" as your beloved prez instructed.

I'd call both teams low-class rogues who turned a lousy match only fools want to see into an ugly melee, in front of spectators of the size smaller than total players, lol!

I simply picked out the very worst example of a shameful display on all sides. Pushing and shoving is embarassing but no big deal. Kicking someone in the back of the head while they're prone is potentially lethal.

No idea what street gang incident you're talking about.

Search Youtube you'll see hundreds of fights on soccer fields more violent and more ugly. Reason you become picky on Guoan is because you hate China with your very very narrow mind that will pain as whenever you see a poor boy next door grow richer.

Fight is a fight with no time to choose the weapons. Pity Singapore boys cannot even swing a perfect sidekick nowsday since their dads know nothing about kongfu. Sorry to see them fighting like little sreaming girls, lol!

@RUSH

You're imagining things that aren't there again.

Did I attack Guo An or the cowardly act of an individual player? The words are further up the page if you care to read them.

The rest is emotional firecrackers going off inside your head.

blah blah...whatever you have to say to cover up the shame and embarrassment you must carry having to be a Chinese futbol supporter.

Update: http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2010-09/10/content_11284728.htm

This is not the Beijing Guo'an that Shanghai football fans have come to hate. It's actually a satellite team that plays in Singapore using youth players from the Beijing club. So the scum you see in the video tackling cleats up, sucker punching and booting people lying on the ground in the back of the head, we will no doubt see at Hongkou in the next few seasons. Needless to say, I doubt they'll be playing in the S-League next year.