The player replied, "I'm too tired" and the fan snapped, "I pay £60,000 a year for a box at this s*** club, I'm not going anywhere."
The fan squared up to Ba with Gabbidon stepping in to keep them apart. A table was knocked over in the mayhem.
The eyewitness said: "The players had just eaten their first course and there was a little interval.
"One fan walked past Demba Ba and said, 'Can I have your autograph?' Ba turned round and said, 'I'm too tired'.
"That triggered the mayhem. The fan went berserk, shouting and screaming at Ba, hurling all sorts of racist insults at him - and Ba looked like he was about to lash out when Danny Gabbidon separated them.
"A table was tipped over and security men raced into the room - it was chaos. Within moments, police were all over the place.
"Everyone was there, including the club's owners David Gold and David Sullivan.
"Sullivan was furious and screaming, 'Why did this happen after everything we've just been through?'
"It was a pathetic sight and left everybody feeling ashamed."
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