China shows soccer hooligans yellow card
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-25 14:08

China has shown football hooligans the yellow card by proposing detention for violence on the terraces.

Li Fuchang, lineman for a Chinese Super Leaguae match betwen Beijing Hyundai and Tianjin TEDA, walks out of the field after being hit by a bottle thrown down from the stand. The match resumed after a 10-minute pause. Tianjin won the match 3-0. [newsphoto]

Fans guilty of violent or illegal acts at football matches would be held for up to five days and fined as much as 200 yuan (US$25), Xinhua news agency said.

"Hooligans sentenced to detention can also be barred from watching matches in stadiums for a period of one year," it said.

A Chinese premier league match in Tianjin on Saturday had to be stopped for 10 minutes when a referee suffered a cut to the head after being hit by a piece of garbage hurled by an angry fan.

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