Kolkata: Chaos reigned at the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata on Saturday as angry spectators took to the field to vandalise infrastructure after football legend Lionel Messi left the venue much earlier than expected.

The local police eventually brought the worsening law-and-order situation under control, and even arrested the main organiser of the event.

As the development snowballed into a political row, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee apologised to Messi in a post on X, and also said a panel had been set up to probe what went wrong .

Fans paid thousands of rupees to attend what was billed as a marquee event — some even more as they travelled from other states — and appeared to be happy when the World Cup-winning retired Argentine captain arrived a

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