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I don't think it is harsh, I see on the BBC.co.uk web site that "South Wales Police say they will investigate the incident, which happened when the ball went out for a goal kick in the 80th minute of the match".

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The kid knew what he was doing, Hazard went for the ball.

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Fair enough .

---------- Post added at 13:12 ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 ----------

Just seen Picture on rear of DM . Clearly nothing wrong was done looking at that.
Based on it I would say the Ref overreacted !! Should follow my own mantra never trust the BBC !

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Deliberate violent conduct, albeit with provocation, so I would say the red was justified. Anything else on top would be harsh.

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You trust the DM??

Exactly what did the BBC do, the footage was from SKy Sports and I linked to it above ^^

It clearly show's the footballer kicking the kids in the side to try and get the ball back. Provocation or not he should not have lashed out like that. Its assault either way.

Kid was also in the wrong too as he shouldn't have wasted time by lying on the ball.

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This is the image from another angle:

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The photo taken from DM https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/01/52.jpg

looks a lot less dangerous from this shot,than the footage I saw on BBC. when I saw it the words kicked the ball boy I am sure were used. Why he did not pick it up first of is a question I as a non soccer person will ask . :confused: Just seen video - I give up so confused !!!

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We noticed. It's called football over here... ;)

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that proves everything I said earlier :) can feel smug now lol

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I know however as my nieces are the only people I know that play it,and have nephews that play football ( American) never worked out why it was called that - but still. Soccer is the way I tell one from another. ;)

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Perhaps this will clarify the matter.... ;)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/01/53.jpg

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Handegg played by a real man lol

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He's being treated as a local hero today :D

A stupid one though. As well as being on the Swansea board of directors his father owns the top 5 star hotel here too so he never was very popular.

The general feeling around here was he was pretty stupid. Swansea were through to the final. Whereas Hazard certainly did make contact with the plank, it was milked so much it would have made any of Arsenal's glory days players jealous. If a player strikes another player that's bad enough but assault on a member of staff, albeit a minor assault is completely unacceptable. A harsh red card but a red all the same.

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That first picture there shows nothing. That was AFTER the player kicked at the ball and the boy rolled over, if you look at the actual video footage the boy was face down on the ball but the DM photo shows the boy on his back AFTER it happened. typical DM.