Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35526844)

The 'boy' was 17 and was shielding the ball in order to waste time. Hazard kicked at out the ball and caught the guy with his shin - the ball 'boy' then milked it for all it was worth.

Originally Posted by Julian (Post 35526857)

I'll bet he shows his face at the final at Wembley though.

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526842)

Your thoughts. It seems the police are not following this up.

What happens in Soccer stadiums stays in stadiums :rolleyes: perhaps.

Myself I would think there is a case to answer :confused:

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526866)

Assault is assault is it not. The ball boys actions( however stupid) hardly warrants it, and in front of so many witnesses.

Originally Posted by Ken W (Post 35526869)

The player that kicked the lad should be banned from all football for at least 1 year.:td:

Originally Posted by Ken W (Post 35526869)

The player that kicked the lad should be banned from all football for at least 1 year.:td:

Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35526875)

It's at the very, very, very minor end of the assault scale. Plus it happened on a sports field (yes I know the ballboy isn't a player but still involved)
If the Police took action every time a player assaulted another then the courts would be clogged up with cases and Roy Keane would probably be facing a death penalty. :erm:

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526888)

The question is if one spectator had done this to another one would the police follow it up. I would hope so.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35526878)

Thats a bit of a harsh punishment!

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526899)

Based on it I would say the Ref overreacted !! Should follow my own mantra never trust the BBC !

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526899)

Fair enough .

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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 !

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35526967)

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.

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526985)

I as a non soccer person

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35526974)

This is the image from another angle:

http://i.minus.com/ibcN3plDZj7bbS.gif

Originally Posted by danielf (Post 35526998)

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

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35527006)

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

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

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35526985)

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 !!!

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35527011)

That first picture there shows nothing. That was AFTER the player kicked at the ball and the boy rolled over. typical DM.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35527010)

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.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35527011)

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.

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35527014)

the video shows it all though. Look at how his body moved. The ball would have come out the other way if he was hit by their player. The video clearly shows he hit the ball and not the player pushing the ball out

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35527017)

I like the use of 'the' instead of 'a' there. :D

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35527020)

The general consensus around here (and what I agree with) is when the idiot was on the floor, Hazard legitimately attempted to kick the ball and may even have made contact with it but in doing so his shin probably went in to Morgan's ribs however nowhere near enough to warrant the face of 'agony' he was showing off with.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35527026)

What's the deal with a 17 year old ball boy anyway?

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35527030)

You mean a 17 year old ball boy whose dad owns almost a quarter of the club? No idea....

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35527009)

Handegg played by a real man lol

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35527089)

I think according to The Mirror, that young lad who got kicked last night is an heir to a 42 Million fortune.

He only stood in last night as another lad pulled out, if l was Hazard. l would be very careful, the boys father would eat Hazard and the rest of the club for breakfast and has more mney that Abramawich.

You heard it first from me.

CANNOT find a link, but it will be live in The Mirror.

Originally Posted by Ken W (Post 35526869)

The player that kicked the lad should be banned from all football for at least 1 year.:td:

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35527146)

The footballer was an idiot

Originally Posted by craigj2k12 (Post 35527159)

In what way? the kid obstructed the ball and the player tried to get it back, the ball boy was an idiot

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35527194)

The footballer was the adult in this situation so he is an idiot because he wasn't an adult in the manner he dealt with it.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35527202)

The way to stop this is to have a real time clock, like the NFL, in Football. Goal Kick? Free Kick? Throw In? Long subs? Doesn't matter. You play the full 90 minutes (in reality we would probably have to make it shorter).

Seriously I am sick of time wasting. Especially goal keepers taking ages over free kicks. I was at Arsenal vs Blackburn a few years ago and they started time wasting from the first goal kick, the atmosphere got very nasty, the stewards were on alert and the ref did NOTHING until towards the end by giving a yellow to the goalkeeper. He speed up after that. Last year Krul did the same (which led to the tiff with Van Persie when he scored right at the end).

We pay a lot of money to watch football and I am fed up with teams who do everything to avoid playing football.

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17 is old enough to know what he was doing and the footballer was, in fairness, trying to get the ball from under him. He didn't go to kick him.

Originally Posted by craigj2k12 (Post 35527218)

If he is old enough to be employed he is old enough to be treated as an adult.

Timewasting is more tactical than using up the time, if someone wants to take a throw or kick quickly then chances are they want to catch the defense while they are unawares, introducing a real time clock wont solve this, and would infact make it worse, as "timewasting" would then be allowed, while the clock is stopped

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35527016)

Before the match, the ballboy tweeted this, apparently...

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35527089)

I think according to The Mirror, that young lad who got kicked last night is an heir to a 42 Million fortune.

He only stood in last night as another lad pulled out, if l was Hazard. l would be very careful, the boys father would eat Hazard and the rest of the club for breakfast and has more mney that Abramawich.

You heard it first from me.

CANNOT find a link, but it will be live in The Mirror.

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35527196)

The only way to stop this sort of thing from happening is introduce a mandatory multi-ball system in the Premiership. That'll also stop the likes of Stoke giving towels to ball-boys so that Rory Delap can launch his long throws even if it rains (Tranmere used to do it as well for Dave Challinor).

Originally Posted by Matth (Post 35528170)

The should charge the ball boy with "bringing the game into disrepute" - miserable little timewasting cheat. Give hime a big fine, daddy will pay it!

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35528391)

Everyone goes on about the ballboy, cheating. That does NOT give Hazard the right to stick the boot in, I hope that FA hit him hard.:mad:

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35528391)

Everyone goes on about the ballboy, cheating. That does NOT give Hazard the right to stick the boot in, I hope that FA hit him hard.:mad:

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35528391)

Everyone goes on about the ballboy, cheating. That does NOT give Hazard the right to stick the boot in, I hope that FA hit him hard.:mad:

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35186748)

This is where pure stupidy comes to mind, a clip round the earrole won't harm anyone, BUT this is where you get the do gooders of this world come into it.

YOU SHOULD NEVER HIT A CHILD, TAKE AWAY THERE LUXURIES, what a load of B's

This is why there is so much ASB, becuase kids are allowed to get away with murder so to speak, If my kids, were ever bad, that is precisely what l would do, getting clip round the ear didn't do me any harm what so ever.

Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35528395)

Slight exaggeration. He went to kick the ball. Probably thought that preferable to dying of old age waiting for the ball boy to grow up and hand the ball back as he supposed to do :)

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35528777)

Would love to have seen this happen in a rugby game, a lot of ball boys are up and coming rugby players and i think they would have just got up and returned the compliment to his nuts ;)