Wild brawl between players and fans halts match

A French league lucifer betwixt Nice and Marseille was suspended connected Sunday aft location fans threw projectiles and invaded the tract aft an absorption subordinate threw a vessel backmost aft being hit.

With astir 15 minutes remaining, Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet was deed connected the backmost by a vessel thrown from an country with Nice fans.

Incidents betwixt the players of Marseille - present manager of OM Jorge Sampaoli pushed backmost by his unit and players - and the supporters of Nice who participate the transportation during the Ligue 1 lucifer betwixt OGC Nice (OGCN) and Olympique de Marseille (OM). (Getty)

Supporters had earlier been warned against throwing objects by the stadium announcer.

Payet threw the vessel backmost into the crowd, prompting a important fig of Nice fans to unreserved the field.

The referee halted the lucifer with Nice winning 1-0 astatine the clip and sent the players to the locker rooms. It remains to beryllium seen whether it volition restart.

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