QPR assistant manager reinstated
By Coldness Kwan (Chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2007-03-14 10:50
Richard Hill, the Queens Park Rangers (QPR) assistant coach denied any fault during his side's intermingling melee with China's Olympic team during their friendly game February 7.
 A screen grab from QPR's official website shows Hill has been reinstated. |
 A photo shows QPR assistant manager Richard Hill (R) punches a Chinese player (L) during the two sides' friendly game February 7. |
The QPR responded charge from the England Football Association (FA) Tuesday that they take responsibility for the two sides' brawl, however, has got the innocence-claiming Hill reinstated, which was announced on the club's official website.
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Hill claimed that he needed a chance to defend himself.
Hill was removed shortly after the incident and arrested at the end of February on suspension of actual bodily harm (ABH) on a Chinese player during the 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.
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.
The London police dropped his case and released him earlier March, leaving him facing charge only from the FA.
The FA is ineligible to mete out punishment as a civilian organization and
the friendly game between the two teams was not appointed by the association,
both allowing slim chance to punishment over the QPR.
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