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Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

martino wrote:

"Ballboy" - should it be "ballperson"?

...should be "bawbag"

Geddon · Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 1044 Location: Bristol

I keep reading about this ball boy apparently slowing the game down, which is something of a surprise since if you watch the clip he picks the ball up about three seconds after it goes out of play and Hazard is immediately there pushing him over. Yes he did play act a bit but to suggest that it's somehow worse than any other club do every single week of the season is laughable, the only reason anyone cares is because some idiot footballer decided to take his frustration out on someone lying on the floor. If Hazard did that to another player he'd be sent off and rightly so, why would it be any different because it's a ball boy?

Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

Geddon wrote:

I keep reading about this ball boy apparently slowing the game down, which is something of a surprise since if you watch the clip he picks the ball up about three seconds after it goes out of play and Hazard is immediately there pushing him over. Yes he did play act a bit but to suggest that it's somehow worse than any other club do every single week of the season is laughable, the only reason anyone cares is because some idiot footballer decided to take his frustration out on someone lying on the floor. If Hazard did that to another player he'd be sent off and rightly so, why would it be any different because it's a ball boy?

"He did play act a bit" He lay down on the frigging ball! I've never, ever, known that to be part of what a ball boy's supposed to do. Deserved all he got, and more, just a spoilt wee brat who's actually an adult.

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

If the ball boy "deserved all he got" then the game as we know it really is heading down the drain. C'mon John, you're the first one to get stuck into the excesses of the English Premiership - and justifiably so in many cases - but this action by Hazard is just another example of footballers thinking they can do what they want.

If that had happened at Auchinleck v Cumnock it would have caused a riot!
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martino · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:52 am Post subject:

Tynie Topics wrote:

If that had happened at Auchinleck v Cumnock it would have caused a riot!

Do they get a big enough crowd for a riot?

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

martino wrote:

Do they get a big enough crowd for a riot?

Oh yes, and it doesn't take a lot for them to riot Laughing

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