Football pitches at Victoria Park have been fully booked for June 4, a day that in previous years saw tens of thousands of residents gather in the public space for a candlelight vigil to commemorate the pro-democracy activists killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

But most of the time slots on June 1-3 and June 5-23 remained open, a check by the Post found on Wednesday, a day after officials said the pitches were available for sports on June 4 but not for “other purposes”.

A staff member at Victoria Park told a Post reporter posing as a venue user that many people had rushed to reserve a June 4 time slot on Tuesday and Wednesday.