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did you watch the whole video, and not just what is embedded here...the kid is clearly faking the whole thing...when he first sits up he stops writhing in agony long enough to appeal to the ref, and then as soon as he sees that he has his attention, goes back to his death throes...i would question whether hazard even actually made contact. and he stopped being a spectator as soon as he interfered with the actual game. gamesmanship with the ballboys is common, but usually involves them not getting the ball, leaving the pitch, or only drying a wet ball for the home team. this kid intentionally (and possibly by instruction) stopped the game from proceeding. doesnt matter if it was 2 seconds or 10. |
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Don't think I've ever seen this as the first touch with an indirect kick.
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Yes, I saw the entire thing. As I said repeatedly above, the kid is an ass. The professional soccer player does not have the right to kick him and is a fool for doing so. It doesn't matter that the kid was faking, what matters is the kick took place. It deserves all the outrage it is getting and the people trying to somehow turn this into "poor Hazard is getting screwed here" are out of their ever loving minds. |
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I didn't say he should be allowed to kick. Nor did I say he shouldn't be reprimanded. In fact I said he should be reprimanded for it. What I am saying is the faux outrage over this is comical. It looked like he was trying to kick the ball loose from under him. Tough to tell how much he even connected with the kick due to the theatrics after (the part where the kid fakes being hurt). The story shouldn't be as big as people are making it out to be. Suspend him for a few matches. But how about putting the outrage toward the bullshit time-wasting and embellishment of every bit of contact that makes the sport look pathetic at times. |
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Judge sentences 21 Egyptian soccer fans to death; riots ensue - ESPN FC
Damn. Another 27 killed because the judges sentenced the people from the last deadly riot.
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Am I the only one that was hoping to click on this thread and find some banter between Marc V and TroyF?
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Have we ever seen, say, an NBA player slap a ball boy? Or an MLB player take a swing at a bat boy? Maybe it's happened but no incidents equal to this one come to mind, I suspect that's playing a role in at least the U.S. reactions. That said, I don't believe you reward the guy in the event he didn't connect as solidly as he would have liked. 1/4 of season suspension minimum, a fine equal to his salary for same (i.e. he misses 1/4 games and loses 1/2 his annual salary total) as well as criminal prosecution for whatever the same action would have drawn on the street. That's the bare minimum here as far as I'm concerned. Anything less and the lowlife bitch is getting off very easy.
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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. Last edited by BishopMVP : 01-26-2013 at 04:20 PM. |
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I fully expect the people at Swansea to tell the kid he did a great job, exactly doing what he should have done: waste time. Getting an opponent sent off was an additional bonus.
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How often do NBA ball boys and MLB bat boys interfere with play in a direct, intentional, and physical manner? The way NBA timekeeping works would prevent them from trying to pull anything directly comparable, though I watch little enough basketball that I could be missing some source of conflict. I'd bet if you took a bunch of U.S. athletes and put them in positions where a ball boy was physically preventing them from competing properly, quite a few of them would lose their heads and try the equivalent of poking the ball out from under him, even if it means making contact. Quote:
OK, now you're getting over the top. If you look at the replays which show what happened to the ball afterwards, it's obvious that Hazard was trying to poke the ball out from under the kid - it pops loose because he connected with it. He made way too much contact with the kid in the process, and completely deserved a red, but saying "he didn't connect as solidly as he would have liked" is nonsense. If Hazard had done the same thing to a Swansea player who was rolling around time-wasting, he'd have gotten a three-game ban (the default for a violent conduct red) and that'd be the end of it. I've seen it happen with other teams' players kicking Chelsea wingers, and nobody - including the Chelsea fans - complained. The other party being a 17-year-old ball-boy definitely makes a difference, but this whole mess is still much closer to that hypothetical than to the sort of attack which has previously gotten the punishment you want. Historically speaking, that usually takes karate-kicking a fan. |
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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. |
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Exactly, which is why the FA needs to step in here. If they don't have a very, very strong response it will encourage other teams (and individual ballboys on their own) to copy this.
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It's the responsibility of first the FA, then the referee to prevent anything like this - I didn't watch the game, but I highly doubt that this was the first incident of egregious time-wasting by that ballboy. The first time it happens in a game I play in, I'll complain to the ref, the second I'll take matters into my own hands and do what I have to to get the ball back. Here's my question - if Hazard hadn't dislodged the ball, how long would the ref have allowed the ballboy to delay getting the ball back to the GK for the goal kick? (And for purposes of discussion, can we stop acting like he kicked a 12 year old kid who didn't know what he was doing? It was a 17 year old who knew exactly what he was doing between his pregame tweeting, to his initial reaction (falling on the ball), to his comical injury faking after.) |
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The difference is PLAYER versus BALLBOY. There is no reason at all to do anything even close to what Eden Hazard did. End of story.
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The ballboy made himself part of the match by taking the ball and covering it up. When you interfere with play, you have to expect some consequences. And this wouldn't be a story if the kid hadn't faked like he had been shot through the chest. Maybe the sport shouldn't be giving so much attention to people who fake like they've been hurt. It's what encourages the pathetic behavior. Player should be suspended, ballboy should be banned, and the club should be penalized if they were found to have encouraged that behavior from their ballboys. |
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I'm only jumping back in because you asked a direct question. That is something for the ref to decide, not Hazard. Player vs. Player is treated differently. Player vs. Ballboy is not EVER acceptable. As to the last statement, I said earlier in a post that I didn't care if it was a 45 year old man or a 17 year old, my reaction is the same. The player cannot, under any circumstance, get physical with a non player. I mean, really, it's that simple. If Hazard had did nothing, the discussion on this would be about Swansea cheating and what their punishment would be. Instead, it's about the idiot player who decided to kick a ballboy. FWIW, I think the ref gave 6 minutes of stoppage time, so I'm guessing he would have dealt with it. . . if only Hazard had gave him the chance. |
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Gotta prove somebody told the kid to do it, I think, in order to hammer the club too hard. As for the kid (which almost sounds silly to use since he was, what, 17?), ban his ass for life is fine by me.
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An assault out of the stands thing happened in a Dutch cup match last season, the aggressor failed to hit a player, but the assaulted player managed to dodge him and kick the aggressor (I refuse to call that particular person a fan/supporter). The referee sent the player off, his team refused to play any further an an hostile environment. Eventually the game was replayed with the home team getting the blame for lack of security and the red card getting nullified. I fully expect the FA would use similar standards to the KNVB.
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The closest thing to this in American sports would be probably a professional athlete attacking a clock operator. I'm sorry BMVP, but this is one of the foulest things I've ever seen in professional sports at any level in any country. He may not be the sorriest son of a bitch I've ever seen on a field, but he's pretty damned close. I already don't think much of how international football is run but if they don't throw a fairly large book at this guy then, honestly, I'm left to believe that it's not much more than a "sport" too filled with hooligans on and off the field to ever deserve respect. What's the response to the next bit of inappropriate behavior by a non-participant, the Egyptian model?
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A clock operator who was physically interfering with play? The ball-boy was deliberately putting his body between Hazard and the ball while the clock was running; that's where things become a physical confrontation. The idiot who escalates the confrontation deserves to be treated more harshly than the idiot who started it - Hazard should have gone and gotten the referee, not tried to kick the ball out from under the kid - but all the analogies you've suggested so far miss an important part of the setup. |
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Clock operator can easily influence play, even outcomes. But to be honest, the analogies are pretty irrelevant to me. Short of responding to a direct physical assault in self-defense, there simply isn't anything that justifies what Hazard did.
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But the clock operator wouldn't be physically interfering with play. The most commonly shown camera angle is actually very misleading in terms of what Hazard was trying to do - if you look at the angle in this gif then it's clear that Hazard is primarily trying to kick the ball free, and is only incidentally making contact with the kid. There's no way taking the quickest route possible to resume play is ever going to involve that kind of contact with a timekeeper.
Now, if we're talking about whether Hazard should have been sent off, or whether he's more to blame than the ball boy, that's completely irrelevant. He should've calmed down and asked the ref to intervene, he risked kicking the kid instead, he obviously had to be called for violent conduct. But if you're calling it one of the foulest things you've seen in professional sports, I think the context is relevant to that claim. |
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So Alisher Usmanov is basically saying that the board (of which I assume he is a part of) is not giving Wenger the money to get and keep the players that Wenger wants. I know Stan Kroenke owns the controlling share of the club but is there anything that prevents Usmanov from using his own money to pay off the stadium and any other debts the club may have thus eliminating the debt as an excuse for not spending in the transfer market?
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The question is why would he do that? The current board and shareholders refuse to give him a board seat and have not wanted to discuss anything with him. It's essentially asking a minority shareholder to pay off all the debts and increase the asset that Kroenke owns and without Kroenke having to put in a single cent. Can't imagine there would be anyone in the world willing to do such a thing. |
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Meanwhile, Messi is on track to score 60 league goals. And no, that´s not on my FIFA save
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Ahh, I thought he was a member of the board. Makes sense now.
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So more racist chants nearly derail Jozy Altidore. It seems there is a story every week about something having to do with racism in soccer. What gives?
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the whole world is racists. even the ones that think they arnt. the best thing you can do is just play through the monkey chants. play your ass off and score a few goals and then taunt the fans. thats the best way to shut them up besides its more of a hooliganism problem in that town they just played. they are in the middle of some riots with soccer fans right now, their ultras are acting like punk ass pricks and the best way for them to piss off the best player on the other team is to make monkey chants cause hes black. if he was white it would be some other chant or name calling. but the monkey chant was easiest and most convenient Last edited by bulletsponge : 01-30-2013 at 10:28 AM. |
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Southampton scored in the second minute, but they are getting eviscerated on D.. Rooney has two goals, Kagawa's hit the post, Van Persie had a real good chance.. it could be four or five-1 Man Yoo.
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Southampton can't get an equalizer despite dominating the second half, and Man U wins 2-1 and stretches their lead, as all the chasers (ManCiteh yesterday, Arsenal-Liverpool and Tottenham draw today)
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