HONG KONG: Hong Kong soccer fans sang protest songs and waved anti-government banners as politics spilled into the sporting arena on Wednesday ...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong soccer fans sang protest songs and waved anti-government banners as politics spilled into the sporting arena on Wednesday during a friendly game involving English Premier League champions Manchester City in the China-ruled city.
Over past months, Hong Kong has been embroiled by a series of sometimes violent protests - its most serious crisis since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a"one country, two systems" formula. Once Wednesday's game was underway, some fans sang"can you hear the people sing?" and many in the 20,000 crowd began chanting"Free Hong Kong".Others held up"No Extradition" signs calling on the Hong Kong government to categorically scrap the extradition bill rather than merely suspend it as they have done now.
Manchester City won the game 6-1 with goals from David Silva and Raheem Sterling among others on a hot and humid night.
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