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Just seen it on the BBC highlights package. Ball boy is clearly a little shit, having boasted on twitter before the game that he was going to waste time. But - it's not up to Hazard to take matters into his own hands. If he'd stood there while the kid rolled around on the ball we'd all be blasting the kid now, and the ref could have managed it totally differently (namely, a quick word with his 4th official to find the chief ball boy bloke and get him to retire the kid immediately). And then add time on in allowance. Once hazard put the boot in, Chris foy had no option; it's not a discretion thing, violent conduct to anyone is a red card, even your own team mates.
Typical footballer idiot
Yup. [url= http://www.thedidierdrogbafoundation.com ]They are all[/url] [url= http://www.craigbellamyfoundation.org ]complete shits.[/url]
Maybe I should have a word with HR then
Not sure what's worse. Racism or HR 8)
He's an even better diver than Ba (who was also a dick).
Go easy on Ba. He is new at Chelsea, so still finding his feet....or at least the ability to be upright on them.
And the whole incident just smacks of the lack of respect and cheating throughout the game. Used to love football, slowly going off it due to the players and people generally involved in it! And yes I've been to many matches including a dozen or so England games.
+1
I was a ball boy at Sunderland in 91/92. We'd regularly be told to either hurry up or take your time depending on how the game was going. I remember Tony Norman screaming for the ball in the dying minutes against Chelsea in the FA cup quarter finals.
The thing is though, this just shows how the game has come on. When you have ballboys rolling about on the floor clutching the ball and grown ups kicking them, it's an embarrassment.
Footy really is getting a bit silly.
Samuri +1. As Dame Alice would say, 'he could have been killed'...
Hazard gets paid a gallizion pound a week as a professional. He should be banned - he is a role model , whether he likes it or not.
Ball-boy - well, he wasn't 12 , was he!
Should never be allowed to do that role again TBH. Who the f*** did he thnk he was? Calling the ref over - oh, do give over. Proves how much of a role model Drogba, Terry, Rooney and Bale have been ...
Are the Belgians actually a race of people?
Wow, you learn something new every day.
[i]Yup. They are all complete shits.[/i]
Yep, you understand what the word 'typical' means in this context don't you? I'm sure there are many wonderful human beings playing the game of professional football but what I do is base all my opinions on the small minority who kick children in the stomach.
are you kidding me..?
that was hardly worth even the ballboy mentioning it to his mates at school the next day.. I'm guessing that he probably wouldn't have without the media frenzy
football just goes from bad to worse with it's culture of nambyism
pathetic..
the ref should have give him a clip round the ear
Just another reason to put me off 'the beautiful game'. Its really sad.
Both parties involved have shown they do not share a brain cell between them.
Just seen it on the BBC highlights package. Ball boy is clearly a little shit, having boasted on twitter before the game that he was going to waste time. But - it's not up to Hazard to take matters into his own hands. If he'd stood there while the kid rolled around on the ball we'd all be blasting the kid now, and the ref could have managed it totally differently (namely, a quick word with his 4th official to find the chief ball boy bloke and get him to retire the kid immediately). And then add time on in allowance. Once hazard put the boot in, Chris foy had no option; it's not a discretion thing, violent conduct to anyone is a red card, even your own team mates.
thats how i see it too. really dislike football these days, and nobody covers themselves in glory here. i can just picture the lad now tho, getting hero worship from his friends, famous on telly, helped his team knock chelsea out, got that chelsea scummer sent off etc ec blah di blah. he'll be living off that for the rest of his life no doubt. a shame :-/
if that was my son id be ashamed he was such a ponceAgreed ha ha!
I might still want to do the angry dad thing just to get on telly 🙂
Not really, the whole episode is sad and just another nail in footy coffin for me!
On the radio this morning was some manager or ex-manager saying that home side ball boys will delay returning the ball to the away team and get it back to the home team more quickly. He admitted that clubs briefed them to do this. No wonder the game is about as screwed up as you can get, if this carries on it'll be as credible as road cycling. 😉
Hazard is a little Belgian shit
Racism is never cool
It's all ok, "Belgian" isn't a race 🙄
At least, I've never filled out (in?) a form that gives me "Belgian" as an option for my ethnic origin. Nationality perhaps, but not ethnicity.
Pat Nevin has just called for all the play acting and time wasting players to be taken out of the game. :-/ Can't be a bad thing.
Modern sensibilities tell me I should be appalled by this.
However, my actual thoughts are meh, and that corporal punishment should be brought back into use.
In this instance both individuals need the birch. What was the ref doing anyway? Should have been adding extra time on if he wasn't already.
I struggle with long sentences by the way
I think this is a 'Belgian race'
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From the CPS website, for those who like to pretend racism doesn't count if attacking someone based on nationality.
"A racial group means a group of persons defined by reference to race, colour, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins"
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The kid should be sacked by the club. Firstly for his twitter inferrence that he was going to wste time - if a footballer did that, the FA/Club would take action, secondly he was clearly doing what he said, and basically cheating on behalf of Swansea, call it "gamesmanship" if you want, but its giving Swansea an unfair advantage.
Hazard behaved incorrectly and deserves his punishment.
Swansea have said that they did not give instructions to waste time - yeah, right, but I am sure they dont tell ball boys to get the ball back to the opposition as quickly as possible.
Jamie - that makes me a real racist doesn't it.
I get called a Welsh **** nearly every day, in England.
Does that make my work colleagues racist??
Wind your neck in.
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Apart from a couple of rather good modern day bike riders and one really really really good old one... Can you name me a famous Belgian?
plastic bertrand 😀
Gerard Depardieu?
O' no, he's Russian.
Marc Dutroux
Hercule Poirot.
Yes, I know, but he's still Belgian.
The kids dad is a Swansea director as well ,and at 17 the kid is old enough to kick !! 😆
[i]UK Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage has defended calling Belgium "a non-country", saying it is "an artificial construction" which is "breaking up".
Appearing on the BBC's Question Time, he said he did not regret his comments and felt they were "very moderate". [/i]
I think that's the last word on the matter
Poirot.
#edit: D'Oh!
Marc Dutroux
I had to look him up.... Nice!!
How would you know of him? 😯
Marc DutrouxI had to look him up.... Nice!!
How would you know of him?
From a lot of news reports, as you can imagine it was a rather big story at the time with all the police shortcomings and alleged cover up. Doesn't cast Belgium in a good light....
Quick G`oogling reveals this
Eddy Merckx, five times winner of the Tour de France
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Herge (Georges Remi) , the creator of TinTin
Audrey Hepburn, actress
4 Awesome people.
And Belgian beer FTW
Bradley Wiggins was born in Belgium
Yeah ... Adolphe Sax is my fav
I used to have a list that I keep in my desk draw of famous Belgains... it was a newspaper cutting and I seem to have throw it out, cus I can't find it now.
ah ... its the little things in life 🙂
Returning to the OP...
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(And +1 to everything theotherjonv said)
Jean Claude Damn Van
Audrey Hepburn
the ballboy has a terrible haircut
Rik Van Looy
Tin Tin.
I view it as banter. Both parties have apologised for it. I think that should be the end of it. Hazard will get a ban - probably 3 matches and probably a warning from the police.
He kicked the ball from under him from what I can make out. Either way BB deserved it.
Player deserves no punishment imo.
😆 @ MrGreedy
He kicked the ball from under him from what I can make out. Either way BB deserved it.Player deserves no punishment imo.
This is sort of my stance.
Until we break the ludricous cycle of allowing over reacting to gain advantage/upper hand it will just continue and continue.
MTFU needs applying here
Disclaimer: I know nothing about football.
The kid refuses to return the ball, falling to the floor and rolling on top of it. The footballer kicks the ball out from under him - you can see the ball roll away - and a moment later as he goes to retrieve it the kid rolls over a couple of times either to try and get the ball again or to milk it.
If he'd kicked the kid off the ball, the ball would be on the near side of the kid.
No?
My first reaction was what a footballer! But then watching the video again, it seems that Hazard showed quite remarkable restraint. When the BB goes to ground, he uses his arms in a relatively passive way and then attempts to kick the ball out from under him. Then we get the heat of the moment over-reaction from all and sundry.
Fair play to the BB though. HIs injured pose suggests that he has taken a lot in from watching all the matches!
"wrong sport" post gets my vote for best post so far!