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Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« on: 23 January, 2013, 11:21:01 pm »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/23/swansea-ballboy-eden-hazard-sent-off

Extraordinary. I have to confess that I'd never heard of Eden Hazard before this incident.
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #1 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:10:54 am »
Since you have never heard of anyone, I am not particularly surprised. 
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LEE

Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #2 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:04:17 pm »
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 11:21:01 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/23/swansea-ballboy-eden-hazard-sent-off

Extraordinary. I have to confess that I'd never heard of Eden Hazard before this incident.

An aggressive player like that should have some sort of warning printed on his shirt.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #3 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:12:30 pm »
"Chelsea" didn't kick someone else's ballboy. Eden Hazard did. The ballboy was slow in returning the ball, fell onto it, Hazard attempted to kick the ball out from under him and kicked the boy by mistake. The ballboy has apologised for being slow in returning the ball and Hazard has apologised for kicking him.
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #4 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:16:27 pm »
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2013, 12:12:30 pm
"Chelsea" didn't kick someone else's ballboy. Eden Hazard did. The ballboy was slow in returning the ball, fell onto it, Hazard attempted to kick the ball out from under him and kicked the boy by mistake. The ballboy has apologised for being slow in returning the ball and Hazard has apologised for kicking him.

This is true, but it was in keeping with another thread title currently on the first page within this board. It's probably not true that Chelsea sacked someone else's manager either.
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #5 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:20:46 pm »
Suggs and Woody from Madness said on breakfast telly that the ballboy wasn't kicked hard enough.  :)
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Andrew

Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #6 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:22:09 pm »
I've read several spins on this story already. I'm not sure who the baddie is here but I did like the match result.
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Andrew

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« Reply #7 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:23:33 pm »
But the OP does beg the question whether it'd have been okay if "Chelsea" kicked their own ballboy!
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #8 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:27:26 pm »
Quote from: Andrew on 24 January, 2013, 12:23:33 pm
But the OP does beg the question whether it'd have been okay if "Chelsea" kicked their own ballboy!

That probably wouldn't have made it into the papers.  :P
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #9 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:43:41 pm »
Quote from: Paul Metcalfe on 24 January, 2013, 12:04:17 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 11:21:01 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/23/swansea-ballboy-eden-hazard-sent-off

Extraordinary. I have to confess that I'd never heard of Eden Hazard before this incident.

An aggressive player like that should have some sort of warning printed on his shirt.

Like "HAZARD" you mean? 
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #10 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:45:43 pm »
Did the ballboy get knocked over by Hazard in the first place, or just trip?
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« Reply #11 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:53:23 pm »
That wasn't clear to my eyes, but after falling over the ball he should have been penalized for not rolling away quick enough. It looked like he might have rolled the ball back in good time without Hazard's intervention but the Chelsea players and staff had apparently already complained about the time the ballboys were taking to return the ball; hence Hazard's attempted intervention.

No excuses for Hazard, but the ballboy put in some fine playacting.  I wonder where he learnt that.

I wonder who would win a fight between group of Swans and a group of Bantams?

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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #12 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:53:45 pm »
It looks like the ballboy wasn't wearing hivis and Hazard just didn't see him.
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PeteB99

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« Reply #13 on: 24 January, 2013, 12:57:37 pm »
Non story - The ballboy was a prat for trying to slow the game down. Hazard was an idiot for at least carelessly kicking him and got the red card that deserved.

At least it wasn't  Luis Suarez this time
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Nuncio

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« Reply #14 on: 24 January, 2013, 01:18:32 pm »
Isn't that two stories?
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bobb

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« Reply #15 on: 24 January, 2013, 01:22:27 pm »
What a load of bollocks!

I've just seen it and can't see what the fuss is about. Hazard kicked the ball out from under the boy. He didn't touch him.

So not only was the ball boy play acting when he hadn't even been kicked, he had tweeted that he was going to try some time wasting tactics before the game.

Cancel the red card and hang the ball boy for being a prick...
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LEE

Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #16 on: 24 January, 2013, 04:32:19 pm »
If he'd done exactly the same thing to a player, who was acting in an identical dickish way, he'd have got a straight red car.

No difference.  It doesn't matter how dickishly someone is acting on a football pitch, you can't kick out at them.

Just imagine for one moment if that had been Wayne Rooney "kicking the ball out" from under Didier Drogba.  Jeezus H Christ there would have been attempted murder charges and Heli-ambulances involved.

Nah, it's Chelski....80% of their efforts are spent on damage-limitation, there will be something else next week.  Ashley Cole and John Terry have been quiet for far too long, it's about due they were photographed spit-roasting Kate Middleton.
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Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #17 on: 24 January, 2013, 04:36:19 pm »
Wot Bobb said. 

I liked how the ball boy writhed in screaming agony on the ground, then recovered all of a sudden and looked around calmly to see whether he'd caused the desired effect, then went back to the screaming game once again.
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LEE

Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #18 on: 24 January, 2013, 04:56:55 pm »
Quote from: Mr Bunbury on 24 January, 2013, 04:36:19 pm
Wot Bobb said. 

I liked how the ball boy writhed in screaming agony on the ground, then recovered all of a sudden and looked around calmly to see whether he'd caused the desired effect, then went back to the screaming game once again.

Thank the lord professional footballers don't do that.
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Domestique

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« Reply #19 on: 24 January, 2013, 05:07:49 pm »
I dont get the wasting time bit, the referee would add that time on at the end anyway  :-\
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LEE

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« Reply #20 on: 24 January, 2013, 05:15:19 pm »
Quote from: Domestique on 24 January, 2013, 05:07:49 pm
I dont get the wasting time bit, the referee would add that time on at the end anyway  :-\

You're confusing professional footballers with rational and intelligent human beings.

That can be a mistake when searching for logic.

Try to think of them as young chavvy lads who only did PE, woodwork and gardening at school, and then someone started giving them £50,000 a week and lots of spare time to kill.
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madcow

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« Reply #21 on: 24 January, 2013, 07:51:03 pm »
Or as the late great Bobby Robson once said " If they weren't playing football, half of these lads would be on the dole and the other half would be in prison".
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Peter

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« Reply #22 on: 24 January, 2013, 08:31:53 pm »
Quote from: madcow on 24 January, 2013, 07:51:03 pm
Or as the late great Bobby Robson once said " If they weren't playing football, half of these lads would be on the dole and the other half would be in prison".

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« Reply #23 on: 24 January, 2013, 08:38:51 pm »
Quote from: Peter on 24 January, 2013, 08:31:53 pm
The Bastille, if the make-up of my beloved Toon is anything to go by!

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Blade

Re: Chelsea kick someone else's ballboy.
« Reply #24 on: 24 January, 2013, 08:47:29 pm »
It seems that the ballboys' dad owns 25% of Swansea F.C. and is worth LOTS of millions.

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