SOUTH Korea lost everything last night at the Hong Kong Football Club in a game which ended in disgraceful scenes never before seen in the territory.
The Koreans lost the second Test 31-16 as an accomplished Hong Kong outfit completed a 2-0 series win. The Koreans also lost their cool, their honour and face in a mass brawl which saw the astounding scene of one of their replacements join the on-field fisticuffs.
The Koreans had lost the game by half-time, trailing 18-8, as Hong Kong continued their recent domination and laid to rest a bogey which has haunted them in the past. The Koreans lost their honour 10 minutes before the end and had to leave the field to boos from the crowd.
The farce started when Hong Kong scrum-half Stephen Kidd was blatantly kicked in a maul by Korean flanker Park Jin-bai. This led to retaliation from Hong Kong backs Robin Bredbury, Rodney McIntosh and Man-of-the-Match Vaughan Going.
All three players were dotted around the field, involved in separate fights at the same time as their anger overcame discipline which coach George Simpkin has been trying to instil in the Hong Kong team.
With match officials trying to separate the brawling players, a Korean replacement ran off the bench and launched a kung-fu kick at a Hong Kong jersey.
