TONIGHT'S special disciplinary committee hearing has been thrown into confusion as senior clubs continued their threat of boycotting all Hong Kong Football Association meetings.
The special hearing was called last week to punish offending players and officials involved in a First Division fracas between Uhlsport-Rangers and South China at the Hong Kong Stadium which saw violence spill on to the terraces and involve spectators.
Then the Association of Hong Kong Professional Clubs, a rebel body comprising nine of the 10 senior clubs, announced last week they were challenging the HKFA's 'archaic' administration and management.
Their spokesman, Ken Ng, said yesterday it was unlikely any of the nine clubs would be represented tonight.
HKFA chairman Stewart Lee Leung-nang, however, is confident the meetings would go ahead with important issues being decided.
'To my knowledge, the meetings are still on,' he said. 'But nobody can predict what will happen.' Lee said at least three council members or 'co-op' members, invited by the FA, were needed for the meetings to come under order.
Veronica Chan, vice-president of the HKFA, who will chair the disciplinary committee tonight, said: 'If the senior clubs don't want to turn up for these meetings, they don't have to.
