It took more than half an hour for the chaotic stadium scene to stop. The players on both sides who were still standing had already been escorted back to their respective locker rooms by the staff and protected.
The game ended in an extremely embarrassing way. Only the bright red 4 to 1 on the timer showed how fierce and cruel the game just was.
Under the guidance of stadium security personnel, the irritable fans were allowed to leave the stadium first.
But more fans still chose to stay in the stadium, not wanting to miss the end of this farce.
Some seriously injured players were first sent to the hospital for treatment, while some players with only minor injuries stood beside the team doctor and lined up to treat their wounds.
Wang Xiaodong's arm was wrapped in a bandage. It was scratched by a broken glass during the fight.
Other than that, there are only some bruises and redness left on the body.
This kind of soft tissue contusion will completely subside after a few days of rest.
The "remaining" Saints gathered around the team doctor without saying a word. The chubby team doctor was disinfecting and cleaning Bell's back.
This is where Bell gets beaten the most, but it's not dangerous. Apart from a few shoe prints, there were only a few scratches from shoe nails at best.
Bell gritted his teeth and hugged the edge of the short bench with a look of pain on his face.
"Great Sage, I felt something was wrong when I saw you injured last time."
Wang Xiaodong taunted carelessly from the side, "You are hurt when you say you are hurt. Why do you always cry so much like a girl?"
"What's going on?"
"Does it hurt?"
"Shout out if it hurts. What's the point of crying all the time?"
Hearing Wang Xiaodong's taunt, Bell turned his face to the other side, still not saying a word.
Does he feel pain?
It really hurts!
Is he afraid of getting hurt?
Really afraid of getting hurt!
But was he crying because of pain and injury?
Not really.
The last time he was injured, he cried because Bell knew that his leg injury would probably not be cured and would even affect his entire career in the future.
This time I was injured and cried because of emotion and self-blame.
No teammate has ever gone so far to stand up for him, and he deeply blames himself for today's series of consequences.
Everyone understood Bell's mood, but Wang Xiaodong acted as if nothing was wrong, and even showed an expression of unfinished business.
"I'm telling you, if the boss hadn't stopped me, I could have beaten the opponent's coach to the ground. Do you believe it?"
Wang Xiaodong was still chatting away, seemingly not paying attention to what happened today.
"I was already in front of their bench, and I was just a few steps away from holding the guy in the suit in my hands."
"Hahaha, when I see my coach being controlled by me, I don't know what kind of expression those losers will show."
Speaking of this, Wang Xiaodong seemed to regard himself as an enemy of ten thousand people during the Three Kingdoms period.
Whether it is Guan Zhang or Lu Bu.
It is the dream of all men to capture the heads of enemy generals from thousands of troops.
Wang Xiaodong was writing something special on the side, but he didn't notice that there was something strange in the eyes of other teammates looking at him.
In the end, this chaotic fight was not stopped by the staff, but many "initiators" stopped talking.
Each team could only bring sixteen players to the field. By the end of the fight, those "emotional" guys all fell to the ground and withdrew from the game.
The Pompeii boy, who was still punching, also noticed something was wrong. Why did he lose so many teammates as he continued to punch?
The opponent's goalkeeper didn't even participate in the battle, so why was I surrounded by two or three people from the opponent?
What are my teammates doing?
Do they also unite to besiege others?
This "lucky" player guessed correctly. Most of his teammates banded together and were knocked to the ground one by one by Wang Xiaodong.
"Good guy, there must be five or six people knocked down by him, right?"
"Who said that! I saw seven or eight of them!"
"No! I remember there were more than ten! Have you forgotten those Portsmouth staff?"
The team members were talking a lot, and they suddenly felt that as long as Wang Xiaodong was here, they would not be afraid of such vicious people as West Ham United or Manchester United.
The locker room was quiet, but there was an explosion outside.
Facing the reporter's interview, Keegan said with a painful expression: "Our players performed very well. Although the game was very difficult, we still achieved the final victory."
Redknapp on the other side laughed angrily: "What a joke!"
"As long as the game is played, I don't know what Southampton can be proud of!"
"Let us be clear that it was their ill-mannered savage who started the dispute."
"We played very well in the second half and had taken over the game, but the stupidity and brutality of our opponents prevented us from winning."
"Let me say one last thing, we welcome competitions, but we will stay with you until the end of fights!!!"
Although Redknapp spoke righteously, the reporters around him curled their lips.
You guys really stayed with us "to the end". Most of the players were beaten to the ground, and more than half of the main players were sent to the hospital on stretchers. It's really impossible not to "fight to the end"!
That night, Southampton's bus only left Portsmouth with police cars clearing the way. Even so, many innocent fans were retaliated by angry Portsmouth people.
According to incomplete statistics, at the end of the game that day, there were at least 17 incidents of besieging fans outside the stadium.
Angry Portsmouth residents set their city bus on fire and pushed it into the middle of the road to make it difficult for Southampton fans to leave.
The Saints were not to be outdone, with a total of 5,000 fans inside and outside the stadium forming a mighty army of visitors.
Such group behavior gave Portsmouth officials a headache.
If you are asked to disperse, these lone people may be attacked by fans in this urban area; but if you are allowed to continue to gather together, such a large-scale grouping will more easily cause a "war"!
That night, Portsmouth officials even launched helicopters in order to disperse the irritable fans from both sides.
This fight directly led to the conflict between the fans of both sides, and even some businesses owned by local Southamptonians were affected.
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The next day, news of the brawl, which shocked the entire football world, spread throughout Europe.
Sports media across Europe have set their sights on England's second tier.
Since the reorganization of the English Championship, I never thought that a fight at this level would become a hot topic around the world.
Media from all sides rushed to report on this matter, especially Wang Xiaodong's vigorous fist pumping, which was reproduced by countless media.
"Marca": "The south coast derby with the deepest grievances, the English Championship is full of force!"
"Gazzetta dello Sport": "A bloody scene on the pitch - a seventeen-year-old Oriental boy killing everyone"
The Times: "The worst brawl in English football history!"
"Kicker": "The worst gang fight in European football!"
"World Sports News": "The worst brawl incident, the biggest scandal of this century broke out in English football!"
"Sports Weekly": "Beidong's team scored four goals together, and Wang Xiaodong's Chinese Kung Fu defeated everyone."
In the end, all media outlets came to a unified conclusion: This was definitely the worst fight in the history of English football!
Although most media use words such as barbarism, violence and blood to describe this conflict, the melon-eating fans are more concerned about what happened in this game!
After understanding the ins and outs, the fans focused their attention on a young man.
That is Wang Xiaodong.
This oriental boy is really a troublemaker!
Going to London offended the football hooligans at Millwall, and going to Portsmouth offended the entire Legion of Pompeii.
Isn't he afraid that one day he will be beaten to death by angry fans?
Through the live footage, many people saw how Wang Xiaodong knocked down his opponents one by one.
Wang Xiaodong would dodge the opponent's attacks if he could. If he couldn't, he would avoid the vital points and severely injure the opponent by exchanging injuries for lives.
Where do these football players get into fights?
In front of the bad boy Wang Xiaodong, the fists of these three-legged cats are simply not enough!
At the end of the video, fans' discussion about Wang Xiaodong was completely divided into two factions.
One group believes that Wang Xiaodong is vulgar, brutal, violent and bloody, and is clearly a primitive man from a backward world; while the other group believes that Wang Xiaodong is passionate, heroic, loyal and responsible, and is a sunny young man who draws a sword to help when encountering injustice.
People who hate Wang Xiaodong are gnashing their teeth with hatred, while fans who like Wang Xiaodong are madly in love.
No matter what, Wang Xiaodong has become the most controversial figure in English football.
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The impact of this fight was so great, not only the entire England, but even the entire European football world and the entire world!
Many FA officials were woken up by phone calls in the middle of the night and worked overtime to understand and study the matter.
The next day, the FA held a press conference and gave a tentative positive response to the matter.
In front of all reporters, the Football Association took the lead in announcing the "casualty data".
In this group fight, all 22 main players, including the goalkeepers of both sides, participated, and even 10 players on the bench got involved. Including staff and bench coaches from both sides.
Except for Keegan and Redknapp, who kept shouting and shouting, other relevant personnel participated in the melee.
In other words, no matter who caused this fight, both teams will suffer the most severe punishment.
On the Portsmouth side, eight players and five staff members were sent to the hospital by ambulance after the fight. Four of them were seriously injured, and one even entered the ICU.
Fortunately, his life is now out of danger.
Another point that reporters noticed was that among the injured who were seriously injured and comatose and sent to the hospital, Pedro, who was knocked off by Wang Xiaodong's two goals, was the least injured.
The examination revealed that it was just a moderate concussion, and he could return to the court after ten days and a half of rest.
As for the unlucky guy who entered the ICU, it was said that he was kicked in the lower abdomen, causing organ bleeding, and then suffered several rounds of inhumane circle kicks.
On the contrary, in Southampton, only Dyer followed the car to the hospital.
After a simple bandage, he was discharged from the hospital that night and returned to Southampton with the team bus.
In other words, Southampton achieved a huge victory with "zero casualties" in this South Coast Derby.
Upon hearing this data, the reporters in the audience had abnormal expressions.
Who would have thought that these guys who call themselves saints would be so brave when fighting!
I believe that through this battle, teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, West Ham United, Millwall, and Everton can all step aside, and Southampton is the number one in combat effectiveness!
Three days later, the FA held another press conference to announce the penalty on the matter.
Southampton and Portsmouth are disqualified from the FA Cup this season and will not be allowed to register for next season's FA Cup.
Southampton, who took action later, was fined 100,000 pounds, and Wang Xiaodong, the "initiator" of the incident, was fined 50,000 pounds and banned for 5 games in the FA Cup.
Portsmouth, who struck first, were fined 200,000 pounds. Richard, Pedro and the other three players who bullied Bell were fined 10,000 to 30,000 pounds respectively and were banned from the FA Cup for 3 games.
And all expenses incurred by the injured players in this fight will be borne by the two clubs.
After the regular punishment in sports such as fines and suspensions, the fight still did not stop.
The extensive exaggeration in newspapers and television pushed both teams to the forefront. Some media revealed that this group fight was even worse than the brawl between Manchester United and Arsenal in 1990.
Although most people from both sides participated in both gang fights, the result of that fight was that everyone was more or less guilty, rather than even someone being admitted to the ICU like this time.
The occurrence of such a serious injury caused many fans who were not too concerned about the incident to speak out, demanding that the offending players on both sides be held criminally responsible.
There is no doubt that after this gang fight, Wang Xiaodong's name was completely resounding throughout Europe.
