The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) received a letter from FIFA on 3 July, entitled “Incidents during the Preliminary Competition matches for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia between Hong Kong and Bhutan played on 11 June 2015 and between Hong Kong and Maldives played on 16 June 2015”.
The letter drew HKFA’s attention to “the fans of the representative team of Hong Kong booed their national anthem before the start of the above-mentioned matches” and highlighted that “the spectators shall respect at all times the principles of fair play. In particular, those principles shall apply towards the opposing association and its representative team but also towards your own association and its representative team.”....