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MONDAY'S mayhem at the Schools National B Division rugby final has shocked many, including Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck.
At a Youth Olympic Games event yesterday, he said: 'Here we are celebrating values of respect, friendship and excellence, and there you have this kind of violence breaking out.
'To see such physical violence happening at the schools' level, I was quite shocked.':oIo::oIo:
The post-game scuffle and pitch invasion after Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) beat St Andrew's School (SAS) 8-7 has unleashed plenty of debate online - there were more than 140 comments on the ST online and AsiaOne forums.
Most agree that the blame should not fall entirely on the boy who hit 15-year-old ACS(I) player Leonard Wee, the incident that sparked the pitch invasion. The schools, their coaches and both teams should have done more to ensure the game did not end the way it did.
On Tuesday, SAS revealed it had suspended the boy from lessons and banned him from representing the school.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.