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These were the scenes in Kazakhstan at the weekend where an under-10 hockey match descended into an all-out brawl - before a puck was slapped in anger.

Despite the impressions you might have from Borat, it’s not all sweetness, light and house-dwelling cows in the former Soviet state.

The kids there know how to pack a punch too on the evidence of this video from an under-10 hockey game between Kokshetau-Burabay, in the green strip, and Astana at the weekend.

It all kicked off straight from the handshakes after some apparently over-aggressive and, it must be said, rather un-childlike trash-talking from the Astana boys.