QPR assistant manger released
By Coldness Kwan (Chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-03-06 10:50
Richard Hill, the Queens Park Rangers (QPR) assistant manger will not face police charges for his role in the mass brawl between his side and the Chinese Olympic team February 7, the Mirror reported.
 A photo shows QPR assistant manager Richard Hill (R) punches a Chinese player (L) during the two sides' friendly game February 7. |
The assistant manager reportedly has been released by the local police and is expected by his colleagues to reinstatement.
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But QPR chairman Gianni Paladini was not so happy about Hill's immediate return because the assistant manager is still waiting for charges by the England Football Association (FA).
Hill was arrested on suspension of actual bodily harm (ABH) on a Chinese player during the two sides' intermingling melee, which left China's striker Zheng Tao with a broken jaw and taken to hospital while captain Chen Tao a fractured eye socket.
The brawl was erupted after China's striker Gao Lin aimed a flying kick at a QPR player during the two sides' friendly.
English media began to target on the Chinese team right after the incident as the Chinese side made an immediate and unilateral apology for the melee, giving an impression that China was fully responsible for the brawl.
But later the game video showed that the QPR players provoked the Chinese players with "dirty gestures" first and Hill was caught by a Chinese photographer in the act of punching a Chinese player.
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