A video showing Manchester City star striker Phil Fodden and his mother in the middle of a fight has been circulating on social media for a few hours.
According to The Sun, the scene took place in the corridors of the AO Manchester Arena during a boxing match between Kell Brook and Amir Khan.
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The sequence first shows Phil Fodden, visibly tense, entering a private box with his wife, annoyed by the presence of several men in a hallway.
A few seconds later, the mother of the Citizen beaten by Tottenham on Saturday afternoon, leaves the room, also very uplifted, and first attacking these individuals verbally.
"Who asks," she screams before releasing verbal threats that were obviously not taken seriously.
The player's mother then physically attacked the men camped in their positions in the hallway.
One of them then responded by punching her in the face.
The situation became very confusing and Phil Fodden himself intervened to protect his mother before being restrained by his partner.
The confrontation continued all the same with the use, by a man of a fire extinguisher.
The international's entourage did not wish to react to these very violent images, but the Manchester police have opened an investigation according to
The Sun.