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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
Fwiw, I'm on the side of Hazard here - as a player I've done the time-wasting thing where you play keep away with the ball as long as possible from the other trailing team, and I've played my share of Latin players who seem to consider it a point of cultural pride, and I've never seen anyone end up on top of the ball guarding it. If you want to give Hazard a huge suspension I won't argue too too much, but Swansea better get fined and that kid can never work as a ballboy again as well.
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This is what I don't understand at all. You ARE ONE THE SIDE of the player who kicked the ballboy? I don't understand this attitude. So the ballboy wasted time, IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO KICK HIM. (and please, stop it with the "he kicked the ball garbage", he made contact with the ballboy, end of story.
Sure, fine Swansea, make sure the ballboy never is in that capacity again. Hell, make Swansea play with an empty stands for a game, I don't care. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. I'm not "on a side" here unless you decide to call "demanding a professional soccer player to act, you know, professional and not assault ballboys" a side.
I hate it in sports where we seem to play off unacceptable behavior as the fault of the other guy. The hockey player who takes an elbow to the face is to blame because he had his head down, it isn't the thug who targeted his heads fault. The hockey player who gets smashed in the back of the head is at fault, because you know, he had a cheap play a few games ago and he didn't turn around and fight. The poor innocent football player who took three full steps, led with his head and smashes a QB right in the facemask isn't at fault because it's a "speed of the game" thing.
Now, I'm seeing people all over the internet, twitter and radio shows "siding" with a guy who thought the best action to take for time wasting was to kick a 17 year old.
I'm sorry, I respect all opinions even though I come off as a know it all sometimes. But this garbage is over the top. Unless that kid came up swinging or he had a weapon, there is NO EXCUSE for what Hazard did and to take his side is pure insanity. Is it really so hard to say "yeah, the kid is a jack ass, but Hazard WAS WAY THE HELL OUT OF LINE by turning it into a physical altercation, and that's something that is unacceptable for a professional athlete to do and must be dealt with more than a simple violent conduct charge"
I just don't get it. I'll stop speaking on the issue now and let all of you guys think I'm overreacting. I think the issue here has been one of underreaction myself and I hope the FA come down hard on this clown. Hell, I wish Cazorla, one of my teams players, was suspended 10 games for diving in a game, I'm damned well going to want Hazard to be drilled for this action.