footy – foul play SHOCKA !!

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!

Seems ok to me, I am guessing the Belgian assumed a ruck had formed and was merely following he rules of a better game:

When a ruck has formed…the ball can be played only with your feet. No hands allowed.

So the ball boy should have been sin binned at the very least.

Never mind a ruck forming, the BB held onto the ball while not on his feet. Should’ve been a penalty…

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I struggle with long sentences

Read about it and was disappointed when I watched it

BB was an idiot for what he did
Hazard was an idiot for what he did but it wa shardly an assault

Both said sorry so lets all just move on.

So the lad was on Twitter before the match boasting about time wasting

The ballboy is nearly 18, if you saw him fighting outside a pub you wouldn’t call him a kid.

If he was my son and an adult was kicking him the stomach then yes I would.

Would have made for a better spectacle if all the other ballboys had piled in.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/league-cup-nevin-ball-boy-disgraceful-101809951.html

Asked if he would have done the same as Hazard, Nevin said: “I would have kicked the ball from beneath the ball boy, yes 100 per cent. Sorry that’s not very right on, but I would have.”

Cheating by wasting time.
Cheating by exaggerating injury.

Can’t imagine where the lad gets his ideas from.

If he was my son and an adult was kicking him the stomach then yes I would.

Your son must be a precious little darling 🙄

If he was my son and an adult was kicking him the stomach then yes I would

especially if it was a racially inferior belgian

Your son must be a precious little darling

Oh of course. Fancy looking out for your son when he’s being kicked by someone older and stronger.

Belgians. Coming over here. Stealing our waffles.

Nahhh … just kick the ball boy for trying to be an a***.

Some good kicking will do him good too after all it’s just football.

Oh of course. Fancy looking out for your son when he’s being kicked by someone older and stronger.

Older and stronger my arse he was 17 bloody years old…I heard the story and assumed he was 10-12years old!

The ballboy actually deserved a kicking for his antics.

(not that I know the first thing about soccer)

Jamie – Member
Belgians. Coming over here. Stealing our waffles.

But they are the superior waffle-race.

Play acting on the field of play should have a serious punishment. If you go down like you were shot from a little tap, the fourth official should be allowed one live round from a full bore rifle to make it so.

Hazzard is a midget & only about 21 isnt he?

samuri – Member
If he was my son and an adult was kicking him the stomach then yes I would.

Any parent would but not stomach-kicking happened so kind of irrelevant to the OP don’t you think…

thePodge from round these parts is Belgian.

but not stomach-kicking happened

He ain’t wrong.

jamie, it pronounced “he not wong”

Is that it?
The Belgian just kicked the ball.
Doesn’t even look like he made contact with the kid,
Whatever the player may be, he should be let off any punishment based on that clip alone.
The kid, however, should be birched on the centre spot next home game for being a proper twunt.

Looking at it from that POV I agree. The ball boy should be ridiculed to within an inch of his dignity!

The more you look at it the more obvious that the red card should be replaced by a commendation.

Looking at it from that POV I agree. The ball boy should be ridiculed to within an inch of his dignity!

except he wont. in the old days mebbes, but these days he’ll be a hero to his mates, for cheating to get a chelsea player sent off and helping his side win. “another drink you say? oh go on then. hello laydeez…whats that you say? yes it was me, want a drink?”

The lack of reaction from the keeper in that clip says volumes.

The lack of reaction from the keeper in that clip says volumes.

Violence is perfectly acceptable on a football pitch?

Violence is perfectly acceptable on a football pitch?

Yup. That’s exactly the point doosuk was making.

Violence is perfectly acceptable on a football pitch?

What violence? He got the ball quite fairly.